At scale, anything that could fail definitely will
Pradeep talks about building at global scale and preparing for inevitable system failures. He talks about extra layers of security, including viewing your own VMs as untrustworthy. And he lays out whe...
3 Syys 202430min
Mobile Observability: monitoring performance through cracked screens, old batteries, and crappy Wi-Fi
You can learn more about Austin on LinkedIn and check out a blog he wrote on building the SDK for Open Telemetry here.You can find Austin at the CNCF Slack community, in the OTel SIG channel, or the c...
30 Elo 202426min
Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases?
For the last two years, Postgres has been the most popular database among respondents to our Annual Developer Survey. Timescale is a startup working on an open-source PostgreSQEL stack for AI applicat...
27 Elo 202424min
From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how backend engineering evolved
You can learn more about Geshan on his website or check him out on LinkedIn.Geshan also shared the slide decks for a few of his talks on serverless and containers.Congrats to Stack Overflow user Matth...
23 Elo 202426min
Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0
If you’ve never seen it, check out Ryan’s classic talk, 10 Things I Regret About Node.JS, which gives a great overview of the reasons he felt compelled to create Deno.You can learn more about Ryan on ...
20 Elo 202426min
Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce
You can find Ilya on LinkedIn here.You can listen to Ilya talk about Commerce Components here, a system he describes as a "modern way to approach your commerce architecture without reducing it to a (f...
16 Elo 202430min
Scaling systems to manage the data about the data
Coalesce is a solution to transform data at scale. You can find Satish on LinkedIn. We previously spoke to Satish for a Q&A on the blog: AI is only as good as the data: Q&A with Satish Jayanthi of Coa...
13 Elo 202422min
How we’re making Stack Overflow more accessible
Read Dan’s blog post about the process of making Stack Overflow more accessible.We followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), with a few exceptions. For example, we chose to measure col...
9 Elo 202428min
