AI is becoming more prevalent in coding interviews, sparking interest from experienced candidates tired of traditional methods. Hiring great engineers is crucial for maintaining reliable services, especially in the era of AI-generated code. System design interviews help identify candidates with hand.. read more  

Architects rebase infrastructure torack-levelsystems. They anchor designs onArm NeoverseCPUs. Goal: balance energy, thermals, memory bandwidth, and sustained throughput. Benchmarks showGraviton4(Neoverse) outperforms comparableAMDandIntelEC2instances on price/performance for generative AI, DB, ML, a.. read more  

The current models and tooling are enough to build software factories. In a software factory, developers stop writing code by hand, and AI coding agents implement features and fix bugs while developers design and improve the factory. Tools like Claude Code and Gas Town enable this shift towards a mo.. read more  

The article covers tools and scripts to reclaim focus and improve workflow for OpenTofu, Terraform, and AWS CLI users. Suggestions include tools for easily swapping between versions, summarizing plans, linting code, switching AWS profiles, and customizing prompts. Bonus recommendation includes Task .. read more  

LLMs like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT help tackle complex problems, but prompting them like Google won't cut it. Use role-stacking for varied perspectives (e.g.: you are a senior security engineer and sr. software engineer with experience in Docker, Kubernete..) and always specify your tools for bet.. read more  

Age verification laws just reached the Linux init system. Systemd added an optional birthDate field to user records - not a policy engine, just a data slot other projects can build on. That was not enough to stop a fork. Liberated systemd removes it entirely, and the debate is not going away.

California'sAB 1043requires operating systems to collect age/DOB at account setup and expose anAPIthat returns anage bracket signal. Apps must request that signal on launch and restrict access by bracket. EffectiveJan 1, 2027, vague definitions could sweepapt,flatpak,snap, and package managers into .. read more  

The enterprise attack surface has changed, with threat actors increasingly targeting network infrastructure. Eclypsium recently captured new malware samples, including CondiBot and "Monaco," both impacting network devices such as Fortinet products. The rise in network device attacks poses serious th.. read more  

This guide shows how to self-hostSMTPon a cheapVPS. It runs DockerizedPostfixand bundlesopendkimfor DKIM signing. It skipsIMAPand inbound SMTP and relies on registrar email forwarding. It configures reverse DNS plusSPFandDMARCDNS records. It checks port 25 reachability, maps host port 1587 to contai.. read more  

A startup swappedSupavisorandPgBouncerforPgDogonEKS. The swap stopped serverless deploy connection spikes. A multi-threaded, colocated pooler handled the bursty traffic. PgDogneeded fixes forPrismaprepared-statement handling. The team shipped those.PgDognow exports metrics viaOpenMetricstoPrometheus.. read more