This tutorial was written by an external contributor. Over a decade ago, Netflix became one of the early adopters of microservice architecture, showcasing its potential at a large scale. Since then, many companies have jumped on the microservices bandwagon, building their backends this way from day ...

Would you like to learn how to work with LLMs locally on your own computer? How do you integrate your Python projects with a local model? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get...

Posted by Miguel Montemayor, Developer Relations Engineer, Android With the release of Android 16 in 2025, we shared our vision for a device ecosystem where apps adapt seamlessly to any screen—whether it’s a phone, foldable, tablet, desktop, car display, or XR. Users expect their apps to work everyw...

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer Today we're releasing the first beta of Android 17, continuing our work to build a platform that prioritizes privacy, security, and refined performance. This build continues our work for more adaptable Android apps, introduces...

I’ve been busy traveling this week, visiting some clients in the Bay Area and attending The Pragmatic Summit. So I’ve not had as much time as I’d hoped to share more thoughts from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. I’m still working through my notes and posting fragments - here...

In Februrary 2026, Thoughtworks hosted a workshop called “The Future of Software Development” in Deer Valley Utah. While it was held in the mountains of Utah as a nod to the 25th anniversary of the writing of Manifesto for Agile Software Development, it was a forward-looking event, focusing on how t...

A detailed account of the February 12 outage in us-east-2, what caused it, and the steps we are taking to prevent it from happening again.

Here's how to apply a software patch.What is a patchA patch is a file that describes changes to one or more files. The changes are line-oriented. This means that the patch file will specify that certain lines in your source file are to be added or deleted.Surrounding lines are also shown in order to...

The things that separate a minimum viable product (MVP) from a production-ready app are polish, final touches, and the Pareto 'last 20%' of work. Most bugs, edg...

The crates.io team will no longer publish a blog post each time a malicious crate is detected or reported. In the vast majority of cases to date, these notifications have involved crates that have no evidence of real world usage, and we feel that publishing these blog posts is generating noise, rath...

Historically, writing code was slower than reviewing code. It might not have felt that way, because code reviews sat in queues until someone got around to picking it up. But if you compare the actual acts themselves, creation was usually the more expensive part. In teams where people both wrote and ...

At Wealthfront, our engineering culture is something you experience as soon as you join the organization, and new hires are regularly surprised by how quickly and fully they begin to contribute and drive impact. We sat down with two of our new engineering managers, Melissa and Sanjana, to hear how q...

Learn how AI accelerates SQL modeling, testing, documentation, and performance optimization in modern data teams.

With intelligent orchestration and optimization, we achieved a 64% reduction in compute costs and simplified our job architecture.

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Data collection is how businesses gather information to make decisions. Here's what it means, common methods, and how to get it right.

The Interop Project is a cross-browser initiative to improve web compatibility in areas that offer the most benefit to both users and developers. The group, including Apple, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla, takes proposals of features that are well defined in a sufficiently stable web standar...

There are big hitters in the AI space that use this tech for humanitarian and environmental good—from start-ups fighting climate change to voice recognition experts diagnosing diseases. But you don't need to be backed by AWS or Microsoft to do good. In part two of this series, we dive into how anyon...

Code hosts like GitHub don't necessarily show the correct source of Go modules. pkg.geomys.dev is a new convenient viewer for module source.

I read this and then had trouble finding it for a year, I'm writing about it so I have a way to find it... The proposal here is so obviously correct that it's shocking it doesn't come up more often when people discuss the NBA Draft... basically the idea is that you assign a high […]

I've been organizing head-too-head match-ups of various flavors of GitHub Copilot and Cursor, to keep from being bored sending resumes out into the void.  In the past I have used AI: Code-completion at MassMutual, code review at SELF, and vibe-coding apps for fun during Christmas break. The most pow...

Making products like Dropbox Dash accessible to individuals and businesses means tackling new challenges around efficiency and resource use.