A tutorial on using Mockaroo and kafkacat to generate and load realistic test data into Apache Kafka topics for development and testing.
Interview with V8 JavaScript engine tech lead Benedikt Meurer on competition, performance testing, and a story of breaking YouTube in Chrome.
A daily recap of the PowerShell Summit 2018, covering sessions on mentorship, configuration management tools, and graph databases with Neo4j.
Guide to disabling outdated TLS protocols and ciphers in Azure API Management using ARM templates for improved security.
A developer argues for the benefits of 100% unit test coverage, addressing common counterarguments and emphasizing testable code design.
Guide to running Azure CLI using Bash on Ubuntu in Windows 10 via WSL.
A developer's post-mortem on the controversial reaction to her blunt advice for women in tech on succeeding and gaining power.
A comparison of creating bots for Slack versus IRC, highlighting the complexity of proprietary APIs versus the simplicity of open standards.
A collection of insightful quotes and laws from engineering and computing, focusing on data-driven decisions, measurement, and avoiding premature optimization.
A technical guide on using the WiX Toolset to create a Windows installer with proper AppId and metadata for enabling toast notifications.
Explains how to use NS_REFINED_FOR_SWIFT to improve Swift interoperability with legacy Objective-C APIs that return NSInteger.
A Twitter engineer shares insights and lessons learned from launching GraphQL at scale, handling billions of daily queries.
A developer explains how they fixed AppId issues for the BurntToast PowerShell module using a custom installer and the WiX Toolset.
A guide to creating custom Windows 10 toast notifications using PowerShell to warn users about expiring Active Directory passwords.
A final guide on managing Windows 10 updates, explaining how to avoid forced reboots but emphasizing the importance of installing security patches.
Argues for using your Linux distro's native package manager over language-specific tools like pip/npm for better system integration and deployment.
Explores the similarities between the Reactive Streams API and the AMQP 1.0 protocol, proposing AMQP 1.0 as a reactive protocol for messaging in microservices.
A developer shares how he built two production-ready web apps entirely in the browser using CodeSandbox and deployed them with Netlify.
Explores the new 'var' keyword for local-variable type inference in Java 10, covering its usage, limitations, and impact on code readability.
A technical analysis of Apple's A11 CPU, exploring its heterogeneous core architecture and methods to observe performance and efficiency cores in action.
