Explains how Apache Iceberg's design ensures data reliability, atomic operations, and serializable isolation for large-scale data lakehouses.
An investigation into unexpected high costs on Cloudflare Images, detailing billing discrepancies and confusing invoice structures for a small-scale project.
Explains how to use Azure Resource Explorer to manage large Access Control Lists (ACLs) directly via the ARM API, avoiding manual portal work.
Explains how to integrate Azure Digital Twins into an existing IoT solution for enhanced device modeling, insights, and control.
Reflects on the CrowdStrike outage to argue that software testing's core purpose is to uncover and report risk, not just find bugs.
Explores the common architectural components and implementation steps for building a scalable generative AI platform, from basic models to complex systems.
A technical introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in R, explaining its concepts, graphical models, and applications in research.
A tech leader discusses the challenges of navigating politics and personal beliefs in the workplace, especially during polarizing times, and argues for pragmatic leadership.
A guide to setting clear metrics and measurement strategies before implementing web performance optimizations to ensure measurable impact.
A guide exploring the reasons, benefits, and process of migrating from Terraform to the open-source fork, OpenTofu.
A technical guide on configuring web content filtering policies using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to block malicious or unwanted websites.
Explains how the C# compiler transforms async/await code into a state machine, detailing the process with a simplified example.
How eBPF technology can prevent system crashes like the massive July 2024 Windows outage caused by a faulty kernel driver update.
A list of upcoming tech talks and events by Alex Merced, focusing on Apache Iceberg, data lakehouses, and data engineering topics.
A podcast discussing why all code becomes legacy and how to write modular, maintainable code to reduce future technical debt.
Guide to deploying a low-cost NVIDIA GPU VM on Azure using MSDN credits for PyTorch and TensorFlow machine learning development.
A technical guide on using Apache Flink SQL to stream data from Apache Kafka into Apache Iceberg tables, including code examples.
Explains how to use new provider-defined functions in Terraform 1.8, including syntax and examples like AWS's arn_parse.
Explores using C# 11's static virtual members in interfaces to create a cleaner, convention-based approach for registering and consuming custom configuration sections.
Explores the concept of 'integrity by default' in Java, discussing its importance for security and correctness, and a new JEP tying together long-term efforts.
