This month a staff software engineer at Reddit shared a real-world example of how microservices have helped improve Reddit's resilience — a thoughtful case study drawn from his own experience of handling sudden spikes in search requests. It's a great example of sharing what you know, helping others in the larger community just by walking…

The lowly file descriptor is one of the fundamental objects in Linux systems. A file descriptor, which is a simple integer value, can refer to an open file — or to a network connection, a running process, a loaded BPF program, or a namespace. Over the years, the use of file descriptors to refer to transient objects has grown to the point that it can be difficult to justify an API that uses anything else. Interestingly, though, the io_uring subsystem looks as if it is moving toward its own number space separate from file descriptors.

San Mateo, California-based Hazelcast has introduced a real-time intelligent apps platform that unifies transactional, operational and analytical workloads by combining stream processing with in-memory computing. Hazelcast Platform 5.0 brings a real-time stream processing engine together with in-memory computing to provide a simplified architecture that is highly performant, scalable and reliable, said Kelly Herrell, CEO of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFMKFdkFEEE&list=PLsLxmNa35KdjEtsZb4wfnc4H2po84i0cf&index=1 The MiSTer is an open-source project that emulate consoles, computer and arcade boards via FPGA.  At the moment, it's still a device that requires "tinkering" to configure, but it's no more difficu

The key to combining privacy and innovation is baking it into the SDLC. Analogous to application security's (AppSec) upstream shift into the development cycle, privacy belongs at the outset of development, not as an afterthought. Here's why.

Monopoly iencourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those its inventor ​intended to champion.

NS1 was created to reduce the number of different tools DevOps teams require by improving visibility, automation and management.

Any business embarking on a digital project needs both developers and QA testers—you can't have one without the other for quality software.

Syncthing is an open-source tool used for synchronizing files between two or more computers on a network using a peer-to-peer architecture. In this gu...

There are many ways to get applications onto a Linux system. Some, like Flatpak and containers, are new. Others, like DEB and RPM, are classic formats that have withstood the test of time.

I don't think leaders here have wrapped their heads around the impact of Delta in the US. This is a new era: A) A bad phase of the pandemic for unvaccinated adults and B) The beginning of the endemic reality for vaccinated people. Policy responses require a new paradigm. 1/n— Will Hoenig (@WilliamBHoenig) July 17, 2021

An alternative guideline to Software Test Pyramid for choosing your software testing strategy

They say that seeing is believing. But it might be more true that believing leads to seeing. It’s often easier to discover the truth if we believe it’s there in the first place.

Beach reads? Maybe not.

We will implement a matrix data structure that supports linear algebra computations like products and decompositions.

There’s a reason we hire a physical trainer, get a job and show up for work on time. We see the value in someone else directing our actions. On one hand, giving someone else authority over ou…

Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.

WKRN News 2 (via GamingBible) reported new information on the April 2020 incident involving Mark Herring of Bethpage, Tennessee. A swatting incident—the act of calling 911 to...

For frontend developers, GraphQL represents a step function. First, it is an intuitive query language for backend data, providing a single endpoint for developers when making requests. Second, GraphQL brings efficiencies since it prevents multiple backend calls. Additionally, excellent open source tools and self-documentation improve the developer experience — no more reading of clunky OpenAPI…

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer with a wide range of features. This shows how to manage and restore Tmux sessions automatically after a hard reboot.

I want to talk about why we decided to go for the equal pay for equal work route at RevenueCat. This is the approach that fits our company and values the best, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right or only way of doing remote compensation.

Your server type is important, and things have moved on from Apache-only setups. This post will compare NGINX vs. OpenLiteSpeed!

If you are talking with someone about important things, from the heart, with honesty, it’s entirely possible that what you’re saying contradicts what they expect. It might be because of…

Book notes on "Thinking in Systems" by Donella H. Meadows

Putting images on websites is incredibly simple, yes? Actually, yes, it is. You use and link it to a valid source in the src attribute and

I'm trying to write a simple cron job that will keep my org-mode files in sync with a GitHub repo by committing every now and then. For some reason, it always manages to commit the files, but even

Introduction to Testing Like You Fly - TLYF