Developer and IT Operations

The End of Programming Is Nigh

Matt Welsh shares his perspectives about the future of computer science, distributed computing, and if ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot represent the beginning of the end of programming.

How Not to Waste a Senior Hire

So you've hired a senior developer. Now they should start doing their magic, right? But it's not so simple, and it can all end up surprisingly disappointing.

The Hidden Costs of 'Free' Internal Developer Portals

Why pay for a dev tool if you can deploy a free alternative? As we’ll illustrate here, the free-IDP approach costs way more than you think.

What Do You Know about Your Linux System?

A look at the process to get insight into supported system calls and features and to assess how secure a system is and its runtime activity.

SRE Fundamentals: Differences Between SLI vs. SLO vs. SLA

These acronyms represent ways to quantify your commitments to system uptime and measure how successfully your site reliability engineering team is meeting them.