Technical excellence is more satisfying for developers than delivering customer value? This is where value streaming comes into play.

Introducing Bebop v3 - the fastest data serialization runtime in the world, and your new favorite replacement for Protocol Buffers 🚀

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Tool for helping developers keep their code bases clean and decoupled. It allows visualising a code base complexity using a 3d force-directed graph of files and the dependencies between them. - gab...

Discover the critical mistakes and lessons learned from using soft deletes in production systems. This blog post explores the complexities, data integrity issues, and alternative solutions to managing deleted data effectively.

Scope. To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. I chair the ISO C++ s…

July 2023

Six years ago, I wrote a blog post “Name a fruit that isn’t orange…” pointing out that the best AI and chatbots available at the time got this simple question wrong. Though there was some debate on r/programming about whether this was just “a problem with…

Salt Labs researchers identified vulnerabilities in the ChatGPT ecosystem that could have granted access to accounts of users and sensitive data.

I decided to make a time zone converter. It had seemed like an easy project, but I was horribly mistaken

Every developer integrates their work into mainline at least every day.

Average teams aim at 100% Code Coverage just to reach the number. Great teams don’t. Why?

Some of you know that I work in the agency business — how that translates to my technical experience is that I used to work on many highly different

I’m a strong believer in automated tests - and a moderately disciplined author of them. Software engineering is exceptionally hard to get functionally correct, and even harder to avoid regressing later. As my wise teammate Dave says, “Legacy code is any code…

Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.

While looking for a job recently, I stumbled upon an interesting phenomen that I consider to be a curse for senior software engineers.

<p>Here is a non-realistic scenario: You are choosing the programming language for what will eventually become something large. Picture a col...

Work-life culture is ruined today. I can say it confidently because I have spent 12+ years in the industry. Situations, now and 12 years back when I started, were pretty different in tech than what they are today.

When I started back in 2012, I remember…

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Visual Studio App Center, a platform for building, testing, and distributing mobile apps, is set to retire on March 31, 2025.

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