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Software Development

Rewriting Peter Deutsch’s Eight Fallacies in the Age of Kubernetes and Service Meshes
Have you ever looked at a complex microservice architecture crash under a minor traffic spike and wondered if we have…
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Software Development

Beyond CAP: Why the 1999 Fox and Brewer Paper Stil
Have you ever looked at a system design document and winced at the rigid demand for strict consistency? We have…
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Web Development

Elm: A Quiet Rebuke to JavaScript Framework Churn, and the Price of Its Promise
Every few months, a new JavaScript framework arrives with a new way to do the same job. Elm went the…
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Software Development

Why COBOL Still Runs Core Banking, and What Leaving It Really Costs
A language born in 1959 still sits behind many of the payments you make today. Yet every few years a…
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Software Development

Odin, Zig and Jai: Three Bets on What Replaces C in Games and Embedded
C has powered games and firmware for five decades. Yet a new wave of “C, but survivable” languages now asks…
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Software Development

Go’s Goroutine Scheduler Internals: The M:N Model, Work Stealing, and the GOMAXPROCS Myths That Won’t Die
Ask a room full of cloud-native engineers what GOMAXPROCS does, and you’ll get confident, mostly wrong answers. “It’s the goroutine…
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Software Development

Ada and the languages built for provable correctness
Ada was born from a US Department of Defense contest in the late 1970s, when the Pentagon found itself maintaining…
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Software Development

GraphQL’s Schema Language vs. REST’s Implicit Contract: What It Means to Type an API’s Shape
Every REST API has a contract. The problem is that contract usually lives in three different places at once, a…
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Software Development

Prolog and the Slow Death of a Beautiful Idea: Why Logic Programming Never Went Mainstream
There was a decade when the smartest bet in computing wasn’t object-oriented programming, and it wasn’t functional programming either. It…
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