Shopify handles billions of Black Friday requests on amodular monolith, built with Ruby on Rails and kept in check byPackwerk. Domain boundaries are enforced. Chaos averted. Inside, it blendsHexagonal Architecture, isolatedPods, and real-time Kafka pipes. The system scales without fracturing into mi..

A developer built a razor-sharp TLS fingerprinting and blocking tool—all in kernel space—witheBPFandXDP. It hooks into incoming packets, scrapes TLS Client Hello messages, and cranks out simplified JA4-style hashes from their cipher suite lists. The fun part? It's running under tight stack limits, s..

DigitalSociety ditched AWS and DigitalOcean. Swapped the comfort of cloud for full control onHetzner, built onTalos Linux. PostgreSQL? Now running onCloudNativePG. Traffic flows throughIngress NGINXwithExternalDNShandling the names. The payoff: monthly costs dropped from $449.50 to under $100. ARM v..

Pre-commit hooks catch secrets and fix formatting before bad stuff hits your repo. But if they’re clunky or slow, devs bail. Tools likePre-Commit,Husky, anddevenvare trying to fix that.devenvstands out—hooks are baked right into your Nix env, no extra glue scripts...

Report URI closed the door on Redis CVE-2025-49844 fast. They rolled out ACL-based command blocks and jumped to Redis8.2.2, now running on a freshRedis Sentinel-based HA setup. To prove the fix stuck, they ran command counter checks and layered in enforced blocking rules—then pushed it all out fleet..

A fresh setup shows how to runModel Context Protocol (MCP) servers over HTTPinsideAzure Container Apps—stateless, serverless, and ready for real-time jobs like live forex conversion. It pipes in a live API fallback, adds caching, and speaksJSON-RPC 2.0overPOST. You can spin it up withBicep templates..

The Kubernetes Policy Working Group got busy turning good intentions into real specs. They rolled out thePolicy Reports API, dropped best-practice docs worth reading, and helped steerValidatingAdmissionPolicyandMutatingAdmissionPolicytoward GA. Their work pulled inSIG Auth,SIG Security, and anyone e..

Pushing Kubernetes to 1M nodes isn’t just hardware—it's architectural judo. Networking flips to exclusive IPv6.Less chatter, more breathing room. etcd hits a wall.Write throughput stalls at scale, so they swap it out. Entermem_etcd, a Rust-built replacement pushing over 1M buffered writes per second..

Docker droppedBuildx debuggingfor VS Code. Set breakpoints in your Dockerfiles. Peek into image layers. Even jump into an interactive shell mid-build. It runs on theDebug Adapter Protocol, so editors likeNeovimandJetBrains IDEscan join the party too...

Resource ownership in Kubernetes isn’t just a nice-to-have anymore—it’s turning into table stakes. Teams are usingnamespaces, RBAC, labels, quotas, and admission controllersto draw clear lines around who owns what, how much they can use, and what rules they follow. Tools likeKyverno,LimitRanges, and..