A technical guide on how to read Kafka Connect offset data using the Confluent REST Proxy over HTTP, including example commands.
Explores the benefits of Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation for C#/.NET applications, comparing it to JIT and discussing performance and efficiency gains.
Argues against Friday deploy freezes, explaining how they create technical debt, hurt team productivity, and indicate a fear of deployment that should be fixed.
Introducing Wio, a Wayland compositor inspired by Plan 9's Rio desktop, featuring per-application nested compositors.
A collection of session content and links from the Sydney Global Azure Bootcamp 2019, covering Azure, serverless, containers, and more.
Explains the security and performance differences between Docker's COPY and ADD commands, recommending COPY for safer image builds.
A software engineer shares a personal story of overcoming a fear of public speaking and reflects on the complex role of pain in career growth.
Eight practical ways for companies to support and sustain the open source projects they depend on, from hiring maintainers to creating award programs.
Explains the index INCLUDE clause in SQL databases, covering its purpose, how it works with B-tree indexes, and when to use it for performance.
Explores statistical efficiency of estimators in nearly-true regression models under two-phase sampling, focusing on local asymptotic minimax theory.
A father shares his experience teaching his 6-year-old son to code using Pygame Zero, explaining why he chose a real programming language over Scratch.
A technical tutorial on integrating Apple's Spotlight Search into iOS apps using CoreSpotlight to index app data for user searchability.
A deep dive into the Spring Framework's BeanDefinition interface, explaining how beans are registered and serve as the foundation for bean creation.
A humorous take on coding style guides, arguing to follow the project's existing conventions rather than debating personal preferences.
Analysis of Google Cloud Functions' improved cold start behavior, showing less frequent recycling of idle instances compared to AWS and Azure.
An analysis of user-created Sankey diagrams from Reddit, visualizing personal Tinder match data and dating outcomes.
A developer's guide to Elasticsearch best practices, covering mapping, settings, querying, and strategy for optimal performance.
An exploration of ASCII art found in comments within major .NET open-source repositories, categorized by technical themes.
An analysis of Sysdig's cloud-native monitoring solution, which uses eBPF for container security and performance insights.
A technical guide on using the Cage Wayland compositor with wlroots' RDP backend to create a seamless remote desktop session.
