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#48: Break Into Vitess Architecture (4 minutes)

Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.

In an age of complicated front-end solutions, is there a simpler way of doing things? Spoiler alert: there is.

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3 Key Takeaways for Building Cleaner, More Maintainable Codebases

What is the software industry playing at?

When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting…

In 2018, I created the SerenityOS project after completing a drug rehab program.

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Radial menus can be very useful, so let’s see what they are and how some video games decided to use them.

Learn how WhatsApp and Discord use Erlang VM and Elixir to handle millions of concurrent users for seamless real-time messaging, and discover how to apply this tech to your own apps.

Beating another dead horse.

Head’s up: This is a blog post about applied cryptography, with a focus on web and cloud applications that encrypt data at rest in a database or filesystem. While the lessons can be broadly a…

Agile development methods just aren’t delivering, and it's time devs acknowledged its failings

Contribute to MichaelBagnasco/monty-hall development by creating an account on GitHub.

In praise of knowing the requirements before you start cranking out code

Ada Lovelace’s wisdom about the first general-purpose computer can be found buried in the appendix of another paper

Google designed its Zanzibar authorization system to handle its complex access needs. See how you can leverage this to create fine-grained ReBAC in your app

Layers of Optimization