PostgreSQL Benchmark: AWS RDS vs. Self-Hosted on Hetzner (2026)(hostim.dev)

17 points by pv1337 3 months ago | 1 comments

Using WebAssembly to turn Rust crates into fast TypeScript libraries(rybicki.io)

59 points by chriscbr 3 years ago | 13 comments

Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics(hjerpbakk.com)

51 points by Sankra 3 months ago | 7 comments

Hexatetrahedral Rails(blog.julik.nl)

24 points by julik 1 year ago | 9 comments

Summing ASCII encoded integers on Haswell at almost the speed of memcpy(blog.mattstuchlik.com)

114 points by iliekcomputers 2 years ago | 34 comments

Back-end parallelism in the Rust compiler(nnethercote.github.io)

147 points by edmorley 3 years ago | 12 comments

Everything I know about good API design(seangoedecke.com)

347 points by ahamez 1 year ago | 120 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke sharing practical advice on designing good APIs, covering REST, GraphQL, and balancing familiarity with flexibility.

The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained(snarfed.org)

363 points by edent 3 years ago | 461 comments

Ryan Barrett's blog post arguing the Twitter API is effectively unmaintained, citing the decline of Twitter employee posts on the developer forum.

API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS(jviide.iki.fi)

584 points by oherrala 2 years ago | 252 comments

Blog post arguing that APIs should fail visibly on plain HTTP requests instead of redirecting to HTTPS, noting many major API providers don't.

You are never taught how to build quality software(florianbellmann.com)

480 points by RunOrVeith 2 years ago | 411 comments

Blog post by Florian Bellmann arguing that software developers are never formally taught how to build quality software and discussing QA practices.

Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.

A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily(freepublicapis.com)

521 points by abhas9 2 years ago | 101 comments

Free Public APIs is a directory of 212 free public APIs for students and developers, tested daily and ranked by health scores based on latency, error rate and reliability.