Segment gutted its old permissions table—bloated, slow, tangled in logic - and replaced it with a lean, service-based setup. The new stack runs onPostgres,Redis, and a sharply tunedGo API, cutting query times from 1400ms to under 100ms. Clean, fast, and centralized... read more  

Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane take very different routes to Infrastructure as Code.Terraformsticks to a declarative HCL model with a massive provider ecosystem.Pulumiflips the script—developers write infrastructure in real languages, so logic is testable and dynamic.Crossplane? It runs inside Ku.. read more  

Modern frontend apps love to complicate state. But they keep forgetting the URL - shareable, dependency-free, and built for the job. This piece breaks down how a well-structured URL can capture UI state, track history, and make bookmarking effortless. NolocalStorage. No cookies. No bloated global st.. read more  

Helix keeps things lean - and that's the point. It ships withLSP support, multi-cursor editing, and smart search baked in. No dotfile gymnastics required. That alone has peeled some loyalists off Vim and Neovim. Still rough around the edges. No persistent undo. No auto-reload. Markdown support's a b.. read more  

AWS. Google Cloud. Azure. CrowdStrike. All hit hard by dumb bugs with big blast radii - race conditions, nulls, misfired configs. Small cracks. Massive fallout. AWS's DNS automation knocked out its DynamoDB endpoint, dragging 113 services down with it. Google Cloud’s global APIs fell over from a str.. read more  

A dev split KVM/QEMU VMs out of a shared ZFS directory and into their own ZFS filesystems. Why? Snapshot rollbacks. Finer-grained storage control. Clean. The new setup rides a fresh ZFS pool tuned with a 64KBrecordsizefor QCOW2 images. That lines up virtual disk performance with the real IO under th.. read more  

Debian 13.2 Trixie, released on November 25th, 2025, offers significant updates, new software packages, and supports multiple architectures, emphasizing versatility for desktops and servers.

As of Q3 2025, 56% of backend developers qualify as cloud native, driven by strong adoption of API gateways and microservices, alongside growing use of hybrid (30%) and multi-cloud (23%) deployments across the developer ecosystem.

A decade in, and this dev still rides with Docker Compose for production. Why? It just works. Clean deployments, solid uptime, same setup everywhere. No yak-shaving. It shines when you pair it with Git hooks for hands-off, zero-downtime deploys. No need to drag in Kubernetes unless you’re actually w.. read more