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Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever it took to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobile SDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for 24x7 hour shifts... for over a year. In this interview, Vikrum tel

I’m Ryan Scherf, the founder of payment.co (@payment), an app built on top of the Stripe payment gateway for creating card-present charges. Payment is available on iOS and Android, and allows customers who have created online stores to easily collect payments in person, in the same acco...

We don’t plan to settle, and if brought into such litigation again in the future, we think we have a pretty good blueprint for how to respond.

Jonathan's talk from DevGAMM 2019.

Yet another article about the Node.js Event-Loop

NordVPN, a virtual private network provider that promises to “protect your privacy online,” has confirmed it was hacked. The admission comes following rumors that the company had been breached. It first emerged that NordVPN had an expired internal private key exposed, potentially allowing anyone to spin out their own servers imitating NordVPN. VPN providers are […]

Checklist for success of a senior engineer

Modern JavaScript frameworks are all about reactivity. Change your application's state, and the view updates automatically. But there's a catch — tracking state changes at runtime adds overhead that eats into your bundle size and performance budgets. In this talk, we'll discover an alternative approach: moving reactivity into the language itself. Your apps have never been smaller or faster than they're about to become. Slides: https://rethinking-reactivity.surge.sh/ YGLF 2019: Code Camp Blog - Rich Harris: https://www.israel.yglfconf.com/post/meet-the-speaker-rich-harris

For my ten years in the Erlang community, I decided to cover a few topics such as hype phases and how this related to Erlang, the ladder of ideas within the language and how that can impact adoption, what changed in my decade there, and what I think Erlang still has to bring to the programming community at large.

One of the (many) intriguing parts of the WhatsApp story is that it has achieved such enormous scale with such a tiny team.

Here are 10 tips to keep in mind when reviewing code submissions that, for whatever reason, you (as a project maintainer) do not like.

A few things I strongly believed when I was a junior developer which turned out to be wrong.

Sam's Spot - Sam saffron's web log

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With GitHub Package Registry your packages are at home with their code—sign up for the limited beta to try it out.

Josh Hawley of Missouri says videogames are 'siphoning our kids’ attention from the real world.'

Gitlab Staff Engineer Andrew Newdigate shares how we completed our migration to Google Cloud Platform, and how we overcame challenges along the way.

Time for a pop quiz. 1. Code Reuse is: a) Goodb) Bad 2. Reinventing the Wheel is: a) Goodb) Bad 3. The Not-Invented-Here Syndrome is: a) Goodb) Bad Of course, everybody knows that you should always…

Learn the basics of web design in 4 minutes with this interactive tutorial.

It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare would reveal its newest game, the plan had been to go with a different title: Beyond. They’d even printed out Beyond T-shirts for the staff.

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Developed by Uber, Kraken is an open source peer-to-peer Docker registry capable of distributing terabytes of data in seconds.

Better design for Github repository page

From the beginning, Discord has been an early adopter of Elixir. The Erlang VM was the perfect candidate for the highly concurrent…

News follows split with Bungie and a year with no major Blizzard releases.

The manager’s pathI bought and read The Manager’s Path by the awesome Camille Fournier when it first came out. At the time, I was a senior Database Engineer aspiring to become a principal engineer ...

Engineering insights, industry trends, and product news about synthetic data generation from Tonic.