In the modern e-commerce stack, User-Generated Content (UGC) and Loyalty Programs are often treated as separate silos. One captures the voice of the customer (Ratings, Reviews, Q&A); the other manages the economy of retention. For brands and retailers, the challenge isnβt just βcollecting reviewsββi...
Introduction Our Android team uses Gradle as our build tool of choice. Gradle offers lots of options for tuning its resource consumption, giving engineers an opportunity to optimize performance for running tasks on well-known hardware. In this post, weβll explore how the team tuned our Gradle setup ...
Why operating TimescaleDB for mission-critical applications becomes a sustained platform engineering investment. Written by the team that builds TimescaleDB and operates Tiger Cloud across thousands of production deployments.
Mijndert Stuij shares a bunch of practical ways to make your terminal feel instant, from skipping shell frameworks and caching completions to lazy-loading slow tools. A good reminder that tiny bits of latency add up fast when you live in your terminal all day. Read more
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Cloudflare Workflows, our durable execution engine for multi-step applications, now supports saga-style rollbacks, allowing developers to specify a compensating action for each step.do().
Figuring out how it went missing. The post The case of the DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Summer savings are heating up. From the Steam Summer Sale to GeForce NOW membership discounts, this weekβs GFN Thursday delivers double the deals and more ways to get the most value from cloud gaming. Plus, Dark Scrolls joins the growing Devolver lineup, alongside Square Enixβs The Adventures of Ell...
Frontier AI models today are incredibly powerful. They excel not just at writing bits of code but also at assisting with planning and architecture. They are also increasingly expensive. Early on in the AI era, developers had the luxury of tossing around tokens willy-nilly, delegating any task imagin...
Ryan sits down with Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal, to chat about why AI coding agents have made writing code easier but running it safely in production harder, why production failures are really caused by interactions between systems and not just the code itself, and how teams can t...
When Gary was called in for a meeting with a few of his managers- because of course he had several- he thought it was going to be for an "attaboy", because things had been going really well for the past few months. Gary had inherited a mess, and taken over a nightmare application. It was the kind of...