Discusses capacity planning for serverless applications, focusing on monitoring AWS service limits (like Lambda and DynamoDB) to prevent throttling and ensure scalability.
Philip Walton critiques the web performance community's over-reliance on synthetic metrics, arguing for more nuanced, real-world context in performance discussions.
Explains how reflection is implemented in a new systems programming language, including type introspection and runtime type manipulation.
A guide to automatically deleting expired Azure test resources using tagged resource groups and Azure Functions to prevent unnecessary costs.
A guide to creating simple AWS serverless demo applications using Lambda, API Gateway, and ALB for debugging infrastructure.
A personal newsletter discussing a trail running injury, Terraform basics, and a podcast episode on cloud-native app evolution and open-source communities.
A guide to starting a quick HTTP server from the command line using Python, Ruby, Node, and PHP as alternatives to the VSCode liveserver extension.
Explains the security concept of Audit Trails in SQL Server, covering their purpose, implementation, and importance for incident response.
A guide to using a Git hook to automatically prefix commit messages with JIRA ticket numbers from branch names.
The author discusses the unexpected computational challenges of implementing score tests for generalized linear models in survey statistics.
A curated list of the top 10 free icon packs for developers and designers, detailing features, pros, and cons for each.
A software engineer shares insights and advice for hiring and job hunting in tech during the pandemic, focusing on remote work clarity and interview processes.
Introducing SoloX, an immutable state management library for React inspired by MobX, offering simplicity and local state control.
Introducing DynaMD, a C# library that simplifies .NET memory dump analysis with a more natural syntax than ClrMD.
A developer's predictions for the future of computing, covering WASM, Rust, Kubernetes rivals, serverless, AI, and programming language trends.
Explores two new iOS 15 features for SFSafariViewController: preloading webpages and running custom Share Extensions.
iOS 15's Core Location UI framework introduces a system button for streamlined one-time location requests, simplifying permission handling for developers.
A guide to using iOS 15's new native bottom sheet (sheetPresentationController) for UIKit, covering setup, customization, and programmatic control.
iOS 15 introduces major UIButton upgrades: new styles, subtitle support, image placement, and a centralized state update handler.
iOS 15 introduces a new `.formatted()` API for dates, numbers, and lists, simplifying localized formatting without direct formatter management.
