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On house building and software development projects. 9 Advanced Python Type Hints That Will Improve Your Code Significantly. Introducing an OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines: Grafana Alloy. Alternatives to Auth0 we are most excited about in 2024. Building Something Real in your spare time. OpenTelemetry Baggage. APT44: Unearthing Sandworm and more!

Advices for junior conference speakers. Load Balancing: The power of micro-batching. 8 Lesser-Known Java Streams API Features. Demystifying the Shadow DOM. French competitiveness in IT. PostgreSQL FOR UPDATE vs FOR NO KEY UPDATE. Spring Tips: the Spring Expression Language and more.

Reactive database access on the JVM. The 2024 Trends on Cloud Computing. Thoughtworks’s Technology Radar | April 2024. Being a Backend Developer Today Feels Harder Than 20 Years Ago. XKCD comics is a game! Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks. What Works For Me as a Speaker. Checklist Before Adding A Library To Your App.

My final take on Gradle (vs. Maven). Is Europe better than America for working in tech? Intersection Types In TypeScript. Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages. Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community. How GitHub monopolized code hosting. Gemini codelab for Java developers using LangChain4j. Type Inference Was a Mistake and more!

Offering my blog to new authors. Postgres is eating the database world. Code de conduite européen sur les centres de données : un véritable engagement ? 13 Docker Tricks You Didn’t Know. Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing. Diia is an app with access to citizen’s digital documents and government services. Five Koans of Software Architecture and more.

Advices on writing blog posts. So You Think You Know Git. How Google Blew Up Its Open Culture and Compromised Its Product. Pydantic for Experts: Discriminated Unions in Pydantic V2. For people who speak many languages, there’s something special about their native tongue. A deep dive into distributed database architectures. On the Importance of RFCs in Programming. HTMX and Web Components: a Perfect Match. KeePassXC 2.7.7 released.

Renovate, a Dependabot alternative. Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones. Ephemeral Environments with Nix Shell. LangChain4J - use the power of LLMs in Java. Event Interception: intercept any updates to system state and route some of them to a new component. How I Reduced Our LLM Costs by Over 85%. Why Facebook doesn’t use Git and more!

Managing the risk of not upgrading. Periodic Face-to-Face. Insecure Features in PDFs. Standard JavaScript Objects That Every Developer Should Know. The siren song of DSL. The Reactive Java era is over; here is why. Pingora is a Rust framework to build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems. GPT Pilot – what we learned in 6 months of working on a CodeGen pair programmer and more.

What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer. Rust Tooling: 8 tools that will increase your productivity. All you need to know about Spring AI. The Challenge of Scale in Applications. Where have all the websites gone. The most important goal in designing software is understandability. Generative AI Conversations using LangChain4j ChatMemory. Continuous Integration: That’s Not What They Meant.

Exercises in Programming Style. From Go to Rust: The Two Types of Readable Code. The text file that runs the internet. announcing freenginx.org. The (almost) interesting history of Port Numbers. The Pleasure of Pattern. The history of HTTP and the (some) stories behind status codes. Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot and more.