An overview of Kafka Connect, Apache Kafka's integration API, covering its features, resources, and use cases for data pipelines.
A technical comparison of Azure Front Door and Azure Traffic Manager, detailing their features, similarities, and differences for load balancing.
Explores using resilient randomized tests to improve software system robustness and prevent regressions during maintenance and change.
Final part of debugging an InvalidProgramException caused by a profiler bug, focusing on analyzing faulty IL code from a memory dump.
An exploration of the quantified self movement, detailing personal data tracking categories like health, work, and media for self-improvement.
A tutorial on using the Tfe.NetClient library to manage Terraform Cloud infrastructure from a .NET Core console application.
A guide to creating configurable macOS Big Sur widgets using WidgetKit and custom Xcode templates for AppKit apps.
Explores methods to count messages in a Kafka topic, comparing kafkacat commands with wc to ksqlDB for more detailed, grouped aggregations.
A technical guide on managing and cleaning up custom search engines in Google Chrome by directly manipulating its SQLite database.
A technical guide for compiling LLVM, Clang, LLD, and the Zig programming language from source on Alpine Linux.
Introducing Parsel, a tiny, permissive CSS selector parser with AST walking and specificity calculation methods.
The author is seeking new maintainers for two open-source WebXR projects, A-Frame Extras and A-Frame Physics System.
Challenges the view that management is a promotion and engineering a demotion, arguing for cultural change in tech organizations.
A technical guide on configuring a VPN tunnel between a UniFi Security Gateway (USG) and AWS, covering both static and dynamic routing with BGP.
A review of the book 'PowerShell for Sysadmins', analyzing its target audience, strengths, and weaknesses for IT automation.
Explains C# 9.0's top-level programs feature, simplifying code structure for beginners and utility applications.
Explains Azure Front Door, a global service for improving web application performance, security, and reliability through traffic routing and edge features.
Explains techniques for reliably awaiting all tasks in a .NET application, using the Pulumi SDK's asynchronous model as an example.
A critique of traditional 'war room' monitoring centers, arguing they are ineffective and harmful compared to automated observability and developer ownership.
An update on TinyPilot, a Raspberry Pi KVM project, covering sales, development challenges, and a critical hardware redesign for power delivery.
