Idempotency doesn't get the attention it deserves.

It enables a distributed system to be both resilient and performant.

If, like us, you’re building low-latency APIs and face significant penalties for breaching SLAs, this article may be worth your time.…

Null pointers look simple on the surface, and that’s why they’re so dangerous. As compiler optimizations, intuitive but incorrect simplifications, and platform-specific quirks have piled on, the odds of making a wrong assumption have increased, leading to…

Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry. This in and of itself isn’t inhe…

Why the obsession with being a coding Swiss Army knife is sabotaging careers — and how to reclaim your superpower

Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of embedded devices, form factors that encompass wearables to server, and a wide variety of operating systems. As Swift expands…

Learn more on how Microsoft Open Source can help with you with your data stores with the announcement of DocumentDB.

Software development topics I've changed my mind on over the course of a decade

An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable - juspay/hyperswitch

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How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

The safest and most reliable way to deal with feature flags is to hardcode them

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A relatively small addition to the v6.13 Linux kernel could trim data center costs by optimizing how data is delivered to an application based on network traffic conditions.

Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple independent implementations—Oracle is trying to stall the process…

I am programmer, interrupted.

AI increases the penalty for low quality code. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces…

An interactive guide on making animations on the GPU

In an industry that often glorifies passion, innovation, and relentless optimism, there exists a darker, more prevalent, but equally powerful force: despair. Despair-Driven Development (DDD) is an unorthodox yet effective approach to software engineering…