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In this post we will describe the Edge network part of Dropbox traffic infrastructure. This is an extended transcript of our NginxConf 2018 presentation.

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Many seasoned engineers working in JVM based languages have seen errors like this: [error] (run-main-0) java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:813) ... [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844) OutOfMemory…err…out of threads. On my laptop running Linux, this happens after a paltry 11500 threads. If you try the same thing in Go by starting Goroutines that sleep indefinitel...

CLIs are a fantastic way to build products. Unlike web applications, they take a small fraction of the time to build and are much more…

New integration enables software teams to connect their code on GitHub.com to their projects on Jira Software Cloud

Joining a startup can be a great financial opportunity; but picking the right ones is hard. More than anything, you need to avoid zombies.

Incredibly, it’s been nearly a decade since we launched the Chrome extensions system. Thanks to the hard work and innovation of our deve...

Hiring is broken on so many different levels, and it starts right there, at the job offer description. It then continues all the way down to the actual interview process. I'd like to unfold here some prescriptions about how I think startups should hire.

Apple today announced it has completed the acquisition of Shazam, one of the most popular and highly-rated music apps, used by millions worldwide.

Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care

Nowadays it’s hard to impress or even surprise with an interface animation. It shows interactions between screens, explains how to use the…

MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus on scalability. MariaDB will integrate Clustrix’s technology into its own database, which will allow it to offer its users a more scalable database service in the long […]

There’s a big difference between writing code and being a great programmer. Writing code is the output--and almost anyone can learn the basics of syntax and formatting. But what makes someone...

From the very start, we made very conscious engineering and product decisions to keep Discord well suited for voice chat while playing…

tl;dr I found several bugs in apk, the default package manager for Alpine Linux. Alpine is a really lightweight distro that is very commonly used with Docker...

Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like...

When you try to install the Firefox pr Chrome web browser on a recent Windows 10 version 1809 Insider build, you may notice that the installation gets interrupted by the operating system.

Ditch IDEs like Intellij and glorified text editors like Eclipse, and switch to a real IDE, MS Paint.

Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows.

Hiring the best employees and building a strong culture are imperatives for any company. However, culture fit screens in the interview process have been shown to introduce significant bias. In this post, I dig into what companies actually mean by culture fit, and try to find a way to resolve this conflict. I hope this post will be useful for hiring manager designing an interview process, or engineers getting ready for interviews.

A high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first.

WPA3, Enhanced Open, Easy Connect: The Wi-Fi Alliance's trio of new protocols explained

The latest AMP messages in Google Search Console are intended to enforce full equivalency in AMP versions. The underlying message is clear. And so is my response.

Report: software engineering efficiency and its $3T impact on global GDP

PagerDuty, the popular service that helps businesses monitor their tech stacks, manage incidents and alert engineers when things go sideways, today announced that it has raised a $90 million Series D round at a valuation of $1.3 billion. With this, PagerDuty, which was founded in 2009, has now rais…

Hooked has 12,489 ratings and 968 reviews. Ted said: Update: I ended up publishing a longer version of this - with a discussion of the trend towards more...

Given how much time I spend producing text, I've spent shockingly little of it considering the tradeoffs of various modes to input it. I had a vague sense that typing is faster than handwriting and that, despite this fact, I still prefer writing......

SPA is great in its own domain. But for consuming different domain it comes with its own cost, and if the API has not been designed…

I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university when I felt both super cool l33t-hacker and simultaneously utterly out of my depth. Over the years my command line habits have improved and I often search for smarter tools for the jobs I commonly do. With that said, here's my current list of improved CLI tools.