Authors: Harshad Sane, Andrew Halaney

My mission as a staff engineer is to provide technical clarity to the organization. Of course, I do other stuff too. I run projects, I ship code, I review PRs…

Still wrestling with Kubernetes complexity? Discover the golden path approach that turns deployment headaches into competitive advantages.

Discover the pivotal shifts in platform engineering since 2018, in this blog from Rickey Zachary, Global Lead for Platform Engineering.

Sociotechnical design in software development emphasizes creating systems where people and technology thrive by fostering collaboration, emergent coherence, and shared understanding through enabling c...

Traefik v3.5 now supports ingress-nginx configurations and annotations, allowing organizations to migrate to a trusted, cloud- and Kubernetes-native ingress solution.

This is long compilation of all the recorded MCP security flaws in the wild.

Le Touilleur Express

As an respectable unemployed person must do, I tried to make Postgres as slow as possible

Samson Hu, Shashank Tavildar, Eric Kalkanger, Hunter Gatewood

When writing up my impressions of the GCP incident report, Cindy Sridharan’s tweet reminded me that I failed to comment on an important part of it, how the responders brought the overloaded s…

Platform engineering uses chaos experiments to create resilient, self-healing systems that adapt and recover gracefully during real-world failure scenarios.

Why it's ok to not be a "mature" organization and how not to fool yourself into over-engineering.

Breaking the walls between teams

The difference between good vibes and good leadership.

This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engi…

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How to be a good leader when you’re also friends with the person

This post is for anyone building platforms, tools, or systems that others rely on. It’s about the kind of engineering that makes things smoother, safer, and more human. Whether you call it SRE, DevOps...

You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

Nouvel article qui fait suite à mon [introduction aux DORA Metrics](https://blog.hoppr.tech/blogs/2024-10-31-dora-metrics-valuer-la-performance-de-livraison-logiciellePour rappel, je vous avais défi

AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and em...

The Legit research team unearthed vulnerabilities in GitLab Duo.

Back in the early 2000s, the phrase Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) didn’t even exist—at least not outside a few rooms at Google, where Ben Treynor Sloss was quietly reshaping how we build and run systems. I was already deep in the world of infrastructure back then, when we called it Systems Engineering or just plain Ops. Fast

Learn why success and failure in incident response are both outcomes of complex systems. Explore the limits of blaming human error and the value of blameless postmortems.

Popularisés par Michaël T. Nygard dans son immense ouvrage « Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software », les ANTI-patterns…

A visual, collaborative technique for decision-making in software architecture. With the Architecture Decision Canvas you can coordinate teams, weigh up options and work on decisions.

The feedback we get from users is not what it seems! As software creators we apply a lens that makes us take user feedback in many different - often unhelpful - ways from how it was intended. Here’s a...

Technical debt has haunted development teams for decades, yet remains surprisingly difficult to explain.

In the early 2010s, Go programming, commonly known as Golang, emerged as a revolutionary force in systems programming. Developed by Google…

Docker has grown up. Have you? Back in 2015, Docker was shiny and new. You probably ran your first...

Failover Routing for Disaster Recovery - Ensuring Your Customers Get to The Good Place - %Alex Schulte -

The latest release of our state-of-the-art Java runtime that runs completely in the browser via WebAssembly, is now available!

One of the worst advice I got when I was starting my product career was to "prioritize based on value" Whilst this sounds nice and of course isn't wrong, per se. The problem is that 'value' is ambig...

io_uring based rootkit. Contribute to armosec/curing development by creating an account on GitHub.

TL;DR KIP-1150 introduces Diskless Kafka topics that write directly to S3 instead of replicating between brokers. It literally reduces costs by 97% (from $1.8M to $20K annually for a 1GiB/s cluster) a...

Updated: Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

Cursor AI tells user, “I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work.”…

A simple, visual explanation of how transformers understand language through self-attention, multi-head attention, and masked attention —…

Hyrum's law, Conway’s law, Zawinski's law, and 10 others.