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The state of JVM desktop frameworks: SWT. This Send/Sync Secret Separates Professional From Amateur Rust Developers. Stop Using the Wrong CNI in 2025: Flannel vs Calico vs Cilium. New Rust Client Enables Building Safe, High-Performance Apps with Aerospike. Soft Assertions with AssertJ. I Built a Ballistic Missile Defense Simulator in a Browser. EU Commission Reactivates Bug Bounties. Sneaky git commits. No digital sovereignty without open source, warns OSBA. Announcing Crossplane 2.0. Looks Good to Me. Purity: A Kotlin Compiler Plugin for determining and enforcing Pure and Readonly functions.

A tentative comparison of fault tolerance libraries on the JVM. 5 Grafana in Docker examples to get started with metrics, logs, and traces. Navigating Consistency in Distributed Systems: Choosing the Right Trade-Offs. Do not Kick against the Pricks. So you want to parse a PDF? If you had to start over…​ The enshittification of tech jobs. Koalas vs. Crows: An Evolutionary Theory of Software. Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog. I Asked AI to Build an App. It Made a Database Roasting Bot. We’re All Doomed.. Next level Kotlin support in Spring Boot 4. HTTP is not simple.

BlockHound: how it works. Dumb pipe. How I fixed my blog’s performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin. The Ultimate Guide to Git Branching Strategies. Reverse Proxy Deep Dive Part 3: The Hidden Complexity of Service Discovery. Working with the new Idempotency Keys RFC. StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey. Atomic Habits for Developers. Partner with the AI, throw away the code. PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril. The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade.

In defense of XML. "Bypassing" specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Function Pointers. Critical Container Registry Security Flaw: How Multi-Architecture Manifests Create Attack Vectors. Policy-Driven Cost Optimization with Open Policy Agent and Kubernetes. Writing a Technical Book for Manning. Deeper theories of program design. git-branchless. The Structure of a PDF File. API Standards ARE Data Standards. Building Telemetry Pipelines with the OpenTelemetry Collector. Evolution of HTTP. What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it? Reverse Proxy Deep Dive Part 2: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks. Why Japanese Developers Write Code Completely Differently (And Why It Works Better).

Gracefully stop your batches. What Doesn’t Change. Why Algebraic Effects. Chesterton’s Fence and paralysing your organization. Dealing with Eventual Consistency, and Causal Consistency using Predictable Identifiers. Name-based + new position-based destructuring. Kotlin Flows Explained. Spring Boot 4 Released: A Full Analysis of 11 Major Changes. Inside the Box: Everything I Did With an Arduino Starter Kit. Figma’s $300,000 Daily AWS Bill Highlights Cloud Dependency Risks. kubriX: Your Out-of-the-Box Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for Kubernetes. 17 Daily Productivity Tools for a Java Engineer.

Writing for Developers. We’ve Issued Our First IP Address Certificate. Most RESTful APIs aren’t really RESTful. Security researcher exploits GitHub gotcha, gets admin access to all Istio repositories and more. State of Vite and Vue 2025. European Cloud Modules. Introducing OpenCLI. How to Prepare a Strong Tech Resume: Tips and Step-By-Step Guide from a Recruiter. CTOs Reveal How AI Changed Software Developer Hiring in 2025. How Quarkus works with OpenTelemetry on OpenShift. Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity. Bootify. OpenTelemetry Injector Debian/RPM package.

Start Rust. Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang. Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever. Who the Hell is Going to Pay For This? What is OpenTelemetry?. OpenTelemetry Autoinstrumentation in Java. How I Transformed My Flat into a Smart Home with Home Assistant. A list is a monad. Structured Concurrency: Hierarchical Cancellation & Error Handling. High-level concurrency in Kotlin Arrow. Announcing Rust 1.88.0. Git experts should try Jujutsu.

On inheritance and subtyping. Standard Commits 0.1.0 ─ RFC. A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments. Rich Errors (in Kotlin). Unorthodox Java: Building QuestDB. Error Handling Patterns for Apache Kafka Applications. What’s new in Kotlin 2.2. CI/CD Catalog. Add Useful AI to Your Web App (Not Just Chatbots). Don’t Be Ashamed to Say "I Don’t Know".

Web resources caching. How Docs-as-Code Helped Pinterest Improve Documentation Quality. Programming’s Greatest Mistakes. Coding agents have crossed a chasm. OpenTelemetry for Go: measuring the overhead. The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication. Build Your Own Kubernetes based SaaS Cloud Platform with Kamaji and GitOps. CI/CD Pipeline Architecture: Complete Guide to Building Robust CI and CD Pipelines. Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers. Expert Generalists. Carrot Cache: High-Performance, SSD-Friendly Caching Library for Java. Soft vs. Hard Dependency.

Offering my blog to new authors. How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes. Kogaro: Stop Kubernetes Silent Failures. Exposing OTel Collector in Kubernetes with Gateway API & mTLS. Why We Use React + Native Reactive Web Components with RxEL in Early-Stage Deep-Tech Ventures. Top 6 features of Spring Boot 3.5. What Spring Didn’t Teach You: Becoming a Modern Java Developer with Quarkus. Beyond Code: APIs as the Next OSS Battleground. Moving from SpringBoot to Quarkus. Getting Started with Autoscaling in Kubernetes with KEDA. GitHub CLI Enhances Support for Triangular Workflows. One more reason to choose Postgres over MySQL.