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Issue 95

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.

Issue 94

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.

Issue 93

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.

Issue 92

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.

Issue 90

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.

Issue 89

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.

Issue 88

On PowerMock abuse. Spring Team on AOT Cache Handling, Null Safety with JSpecify, and Support Durations. Learn CSS Subgrid in 14 minutes. Strengthening Kotlin for Backend Development: A Strategic Partnership With Spring. 15 Rust CLI tools that will make you abandon bash scripts forever. Why I Don’t Use Mocking Frameworks and Why You Might Not Need Them Either. How to deal with (Rust) dependencies. Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest. Maximize Your Rust Enums With Strum.

Issue 87

Kotlin Coroutines and OpenTelemetry tracing. Redis Returns to Open Source under AGPL License: Is It Too Late? GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP. 'Streaming vs. Batch' Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I Think It’s Confusing. Spring Boot 3.5 Delivers Improved Configuration, Containers, and SSL, Shortens Free Support. OWASP Kubernetes Top Ten. Apache Fury. I Replaced Spring Boot with Quarkus — Here’s What Happened (And Why I’m Never Going Back).