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Your own custom Spring Data repository. The LLM honeymoon phase is about to end. API Strategy: Driving Innovation and Growth in Modern Business. Does Your Startup Really Need Complex #Cloud Infrastructure? GPTs and Hallucination. Why do large language models hallucinate? TIL: Anonymous & ephemeral Docker image registry. Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL. Dune is a shell designed for powerful scripting. We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI.

You’re not a compiler! Dublin Core, what is it good for? Spring Boot Startup Report. Postgres webhooks with pgstream. How to Make Your Apps Observable by Default. Failover Mechanism in Distributed Systems. Announcing Rust 1.81.0. Changes to impl Trait in Rust 2024. Besides Domain Understanding: Key Things Every Software Architect Should Know. Monorepos vs. many repos: is there a good answer? HTMX, Raku and Pico CSS. Java News Roundup. Our RNG Git Hash Bug. jitpack.io — Dangerously Simple.

Book review: API Design Patterns. Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform. Merchants of complexity. Containers: has the pendulum swung too far? A collection of Free Public APIs for Students and Developers. Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims. Elasticsearch is OpenSource, Again. 6 Must-Know JavaScript ES13 Features for Modern Development. Bypassing airport security via SQL injection. Cloud : Thalès gagne un premier round judiciaire contre la société américaine Broadcom (VMWare). The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL. Mastering Axios: A Technical Guide to Building Your Food Delivery App.

Spring Modulith: have we reached modularity maturity? DuckDB Tricks – Part 1. The History and Evolution of Open Table Formats - Part I. Go wild: Wildcard support in Rules and a new open-source wildcard crate. ON CONFLICT Clause for Hibernate Insert Queries. Back to the Roots: Let’s Talk About Leyden, Loom, and Valhalla. Why Cutting Costs is Expensive: How $9/Hour Software Engineers Cost Boeing Billions. Functional (SAM) interface. The definitive guide to error handling in Rust. The failed promise of Domain-Driven Design - part 1.

My first Firefox extension. Don’t Want to Introduce MQ? Try Debezium! Evolving our self-hosted offering and license model. The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. 8 versions of UUID and when to use them. Parakeet4J - Intro (bis) + RAG + génération de Dockerfile et Compose file. Magic Wormhole. CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024. Why Zig programmers are making so much money. What Makes Computer Generated Images Look Real? Exploring Ray Tracing and CGI.

Programming by contract on the JVM. The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities. How to understand/retain complex concepts 10x better. Maintaining code should be easier than writing it. The Many Facets of Coupling. Just Use PostgreSQL, a Quick-Start Guide. Jepsen test of jetcd. Don’t write Rust like it’s Java. JSpecify 1.0.0 and Nullability in Java.

You’re running untrusted code! SQLite 35% Faster Than The Filesystem. Why can Spring Boot jars run directly? Crooks Bypassed Google’s Email Verification. The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins. Good Bye CRUD APIs, Hello Sync. Functional programming languages should be so much better at mutation than they are. SQL Murder Mystery, can you find out whodunnit? Google pulls Uno Reverse card: Rolls back decision to kill 3rd-party cookies. 2023 Security Audit. Movable tree CRDTs and Loro’s implementation. Turns out REST APIs weren’t the answer.

Discuss the problem, not the solution. My take on databases with Rust. Demystifying cookies and tokens. Types as Interfaces. Announcing Rust 1.80.0. Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub. Demystifying Log Collection in Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes. Why Go is the worst language you could ever learn. Recapping the first Local‑First conference in 15 minutes. Splitting and Merging Partitions in PostgreSQL 17. .local.

The Flatten Maven plugin. Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers. pre-commit, a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. You Still Retrieve Logs from the Server? Isn’t Setting Up Log Collection More Convenient? Why German Strings are Everywhere. Why I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything. Panic! at the Job Market. SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers’ cloud environments and private AI artifacts. You’ll regret using natural keys. Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project. Automerge is a library of data structures for building collaborative applications. DevRel’s Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon. Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications. Optimizing java base docker images size from 674Mb to 58Mb.

Microsoft ditches OpenAI board observer seat amid regulatory scrutiny Dedockify Time, the Silent Exploit: The Unseen Enemy in Every Codebase Using S3 as a container registry Measure Your Maven Build ]@property: Next-gen CSS variables now with universal browser support Vall-E 2, a neural codec language model for speech synthesis The Threads Creator Paradox gRPC Decoded: The API Protocol That’s Changing Everything Clean Code: The Art of Clean Naming

Extending third-party APIs in different languages. Throwing the towel. Why I am not yet ready to switch to Zig from Rust. Lua: The Easiest, Fully-Featured Language That Only a Few Programmers Know. How AI is Impacting Developer Skills and Coding Quality. From dotenv to dotenvx: Next Generation Config Management. The Open Home Foundation. Free Database Hosting Providers. I’ve retired. Dirty writes. Scout, a modern web crawling programming language. Deactivating an API, One Step at a Time.

Distributing webapps via Homebrew. Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC. 3 Example Use Cases for Arazzo Descriptions. Farewell MongoDB: 5 reasons why you only need PostgreSQL. A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work. MERC, The MErcilessly Redundant Config language. Home Assistant. Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only. Maven Central and the tragedy of the commons. Scaling Explained Through Kubernetes HPA, VPA, KEDA & Cluster Autoscaler.

Choosing a cache. Why we can’t have nice things in Kotlin. Functional builders in #Java with #Jilt. Autism as the Kolmogorov Complexity Phenotype. Follow the money: The financial background of OpenSource in the Java ecosystem. Mergeable: A better inbox for GitHub pull requests. Review: Redpanda gives Kafka a run for its money. Redpanda’s official Jepsen report: What we fixed, and what we shouldn’t. From the 80’s to 2024 - how CI tests were invented and optimized. Hitting the wall with Rust’s borrow checker. api-catalog: a well-known URI and link relation to help discovery of APIs. Dioxus Labs + "High-level Rust".

Handling null: optional and nullable types. Statement on Vavr’s Future. Mastering Kubernetes: Service and Network APIs. Feynman’s Razor. Linamp, The IRL Winamp. DuckDB: The Awesome Tiny & Powerful Analytics Database. Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200’s doors for first time. Moving Quarkus to a Foundation. Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob. Please. State of the Postgres Extension Ecosystem. Spring Boot 3.3 Release Notes.

What’s the version of my Jekyll site? What’s a lesser known open source Java project you think deserves more publicity? Moving Beyond Type Systems. Mastering Caching in Distributed Applications. OpenLineage, an open framework for data lineage collection and analysis. Python’s many command-line utilities. Interpretation of Kubernetes Gateway API v1.1. Raspberry Pi AI Kit available now. Polyglot Programming with WebAssembly: A Practical Approach. What is Google Zanzibar? The Building Blocks of LLMs: Vectors, Tokens and Embeddings.

On metrics. Your API Shouldn’t Redirect HTTP to HTTPS. 20 Years of Blogging. DuckDB Doesn’t Need Data To Be a Database. Apache Doris for log and time series data analysis in NetEase, why not Elasticsearch and InfluxDB?. The KeePassXC kerfuffle. Don’t DRY Your Code Prematurely. Chicory - a WebAssembly Interpreter Written Purely in Java With Zero Native Dependencies. The Arazzo Specification. Map-Oriented Programming in Java. The decline of the user interface. Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL. How we orchestrate 2000+ DBT models in Apache Airflow.

On learning a new programming language What’s new in Kotlin 2.0. Things You Should Never Do As A Software Engineer Amber, the Programming Language compiled to Bash Don’t Microservice, Do Module Meta is using your Instagram and Facebook photos to train its AI models Using traces to avoid breaking changes Dynamic Watermarking of Bitmaps in Databases The Mediocre Programmer’s Guide to Rust How We Migrated Our Static Analyzer From Java To Rust Crate itertools

Making the most out of conferences. Structured data in environment variables. I was understanding WASM all wrong! Faster linking times on nightly on Linux using rust-lld. Consistent Hashing vs. Rendezvous Hashing: A Comparative Analysis. Envconfig. Open source is neither a community nor a democracy. Large Language models - A Street Full of Wrong-Way Drivers? Dark Mode, Athlete Intelligence, and More — The Biggest Announcements From Camp Strava.

The multiple usages of git rebase --onto. PeerDB Streams - Simple, Native Postgres Change Data Capture. What is in a Rust Allocator?. North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs. Did GitHub Copilot really increase my productivity?. Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership. Accumulating Results in Rust With Validated. The Link-Template HTTP Header Field. The WebAssembly Component Model and more!

Back to basics: Dependency Injection. How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode. OTel Operator Q&A. Lesser Known PostgreSQL Features. Announcing Rust 1.78.0. Boost your API mocking workflow with Ollama and Microcks. Figma’s journey to TypeScript: Compiling away our custom programming language. Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?. Chicory Runtime and more!

Free Docker registries. Docker Images - Finally Understandable. TypeScript: Branded Types. You Keep Using That Word. Python Dataclass vs. Attrs vs. Pydantic: Defining a Class. Rust Bytes: Predictions and Speculations on the Future Direction. The Best Way to Diagnose a Patient is to Cut Him Open. Spring Now Offers Free Access for the Spring Academy Pro Content and more!

On house building and software development projects. 9 Advanced Python Type Hints That Will Improve Your Code Significantly. Introducing an OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines: Grafana Alloy. Alternatives to Auth0 we are most excited about in 2024. Building Something Real in your spare time. OpenTelemetry Baggage. APT44: Unearthing Sandworm and more!

Advices for junior conference speakers. Load Balancing: The power of micro-batching. 8 Lesser-Known Java Streams API Features. Demystifying the Shadow DOM. French competitiveness in IT. PostgreSQL FOR UPDATE vs FOR NO KEY UPDATE. Spring Tips: the Spring Expression Language and more.

Reactive database access on the JVM. The 2024 Trends on Cloud Computing. Thoughtworks’s Technology Radar | April 2024. Being a Backend Developer Today Feels Harder Than 20 Years Ago. XKCD comics is a game! Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks. What Works For Me as a Speaker. Checklist Before Adding A Library To Your App.

My final take on Gradle (vs. Maven). Is Europe better than America for working in tech? Intersection Types In TypeScript. Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages. Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community. How GitHub monopolized code hosting. Gemini codelab for Java developers using LangChain4j. Type Inference Was a Mistake and more!

Offering my blog to new authors. Postgres is eating the database world. Code de conduite européen sur les centres de données : un véritable engagement ? 13 Docker Tricks You Didn’t Know. Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing. Diia is an app with access to citizen’s digital documents and government services. Five Koans of Software Architecture and more.

Advices on writing blog posts. So You Think You Know Git. How Google Blew Up Its Open Culture and Compromised Its Product. Pydantic for Experts: Discriminated Unions in Pydantic V2. For people who speak many languages, there’s something special about their native tongue. A deep dive into distributed database architectures. On the Importance of RFCs in Programming. HTMX and Web Components: a Perfect Match. KeePassXC 2.7.7 released.

Renovate, a Dependabot alternative. Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones. Ephemeral Environments with Nix Shell. LangChain4J - use the power of LLMs in Java. Event Interception: intercept any updates to system state and route some of them to a new component. How I Reduced Our LLM Costs by Over 85%. Why Facebook doesn’t use Git and more!

Managing the risk of not upgrading. Periodic Face-to-Face. Insecure Features in PDFs. Standard JavaScript Objects That Every Developer Should Know. The siren song of DSL. The Reactive Java era is over; here is why. Pingora is a Rust framework to build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems. GPT Pilot – what we learned in 6 months of working on a CodeGen pair programmer and more.

What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer. Rust Tooling: 8 tools that will increase your productivity. All you need to know about Spring AI. The Challenge of Scale in Applications. Where have all the websites gone. The most important goal in designing software is understandability. Generative AI Conversations using LangChain4j ChatMemory. Continuous Integration: That’s Not What They Meant.

Exercises in Programming Style. From Go to Rust: The Two Types of Readable Code. The text file that runs the internet. announcing freenginx.org. The (almost) interesting history of Port Numbers. The Pleasure of Pattern. The history of HTTP and the (some) stories behind status codes. Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot and more.

Best Practices and Patterns To Securing APIs. Spring AI. Every product needs an architecture vision. What we learned after running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years. Rust wont save us, but its ideas will. Canada Moves to Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears. Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup. Demystifying API Gateways: What They Are & Why They Matter.

Agile cargo cult. Python types have an expectations problem. 10 unusual programming languages that will drive you nuts. New Glibc Library Flaw Grants Root Access to Major Linux Distros. Jepsen test on RavenDB. Make Invalid States Unrepresentable. Java’s New FMA: Renaissance Or Decay? Getting Started With Spring AI and PostgreSQL PGVector and more!

5 Questions to Help You Deal with Fake Urgency. 5 Uses of Lambda Functions in Python. Keep a brag list of the wins you achieved. The new JdbcClient Introduced in Spring Framework 6.1. Nominal Types in Rust. Why the fuck are we templating yaml. Why I chose Tauri instead of Electron. Flavors of Spring application context configuration and more!

The splat operator, or *args and **kwargs in Python. Every data transform is technical debt. Python Packaging, One Year Later. git branches: intuition & reality. Rich Hickey’s Glossary and Decision Matrix. The Truth About npm Deprecated Packages. The Challenges and Pitfalls of Using Executors in Java. Beautify your GitHub repo and more!

I Just Need a Programmer. Weird things engineers believe about Web development. Fuzzing in Software Engineering. An Overview of Distributed PostgreSQL Architectures. Fully Automated Releases for Rust Projects. Lambda Lambda Lambda. Writing Robust Code via Idempotence. I’m A Developer Not A Compiler.

Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists from AI. In 2024, please switch to Firefox. Styra’s Policy as Code Report: Identity and Access Management Drives Adoption. Benchmarking 20 Programming Languages on N-queens and matrix multiplication. Rethinking Observability. Null safety: Kotlin vs. Java and more!

Levels of Using Structural Pattern Matching in Python. Best Practices for Secure Docker Containerization. Jepsen test: MySQL 8.0.34. Conventional Commits. What Can #Scala Learn from Rust. Most Read Tech Articles In 2023. Apache Superset™ is an open-source modern data exploration and visualization platform. A poor man’s API and more!

9 Python Built-In Decorators That Optimize Your Code. The Anatomy of an API. 19 Sweet Python Syntax Sugar for Improving Your Coding Experience. The Open Source licensing war is over. Per Resource Events. Using AsciiDoc to write my two books. An HTTP API with Rust and more!

Nginx is Probably Fine. Web Monetization. Lies, Damn Lies and Engineering Metrics. How to Build a Docker Extension from Scratch. Run a SQL query and get results from different databases. Reviving the Dragon Court browser RPG with CheerpJ. Acorn: Build and Deploy CloudNative Applications More Easily and Efficiently. My first Firefox extension and more!

Squeeze the hell out of the system you have. The Source of Readability. A deep dive on Java Spring framework transactional annotation. Your CI/CD Pipelines Are Wrong - From Monoliths To Events. Canonical Takes a Chisel to Ubuntu with Ultra-Small Container Images. How Google takes the pain out of code reviews. Make your security policy auditable and more!

Does size matter in Pull Requests? Gateway API v1.0. Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive. Goodbye DevRel. The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices. General characteristics of a Field CTO. Do You Really Need an API Gateway? Awesome Nginx. Treat security as a risk!

OpenAPI Breaking Changes. ACID Transactions Across Diverse Data Stores. Every software is messy and has skeletons. Fighting with type hints in Python. git remote prune explained. Kafka Tracing with Spring Boot and Open Telemetry. Web Path Finder. What are Pipelines in Python. Lessons learned from previous projects and more!

Running a hotel booking application on AWS Serverless for pennies. AOT Compilation for the Java Virtual Machine. After Using Rust, the Way I Use Python Has Changed. 10 hard-to-swallow truths they won’t tell you about software engineer job. Building Docker images with Kaniko. Emergence of a Chief Developer Experience Role. The Spring Security Filter Chain. You’re not a compiler and more!

Using Channels in Rust. A Guide to Public Speaking for Software Engineers. Tailspin. Oort. Anti-patterns in event modelling. Adding build provenance to Homebrew. Introduction to Code Generation in Rust. How to Encode URL With curl. Different kinds of testing.

JEP 461: Stream Gatherers. RFC 1925, the missing RFC. Why WebAssembly Will Disrupt the Operating System. We Managed to Reduce Our Cloud Costs by 30%. 10 Reasons for Choosing API7. The .alt Special-Use Top-Level Domain. Leverage the richness of HTTP status codes.

Twitter Lost Over 600 Million visitors. Beyond Loom: Weaving new concurrency patterns. We invested 10% to pay back techdebt; Here’s what happened. Public Code. Was Rust Worth It? Maximizing Scalability - Apache Kafka and Open Telemetry.

Migrate Data from Amazon S3 to Reduce Egress Fees. The Python Decorator That Supercharges Developer Experience. Shattering the Illusion of Uniqueness Bias in Leadership. Sealed in glass. How to Read an RFC. Working on an unfamiliar codebase.

Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy. Running Wasm Workers Server in Docker Desktop. Row Columns That the Select Statement Hides From You. You Don’t Need a Dedicated Cache Service. Microservices without reason. Making Rust supply chain attacks harder. GraalVM Replaces the GraalVM Updater with Language Libraries. Why a Computer Science Degree Isn’t Enough. Leverage the richness of HTTP status codes.

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