How RocksDB Works(artem.krylysov.com)

235 points by DAlperin 3 years ago | 49 comments

Hickory DNS(bluejekyll.github.io)

51 points by ctz 3 years ago | 10 comments

OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows. Its Creator Trusts No One(zbruceli.org)

4 points by zbruceli 20 days ago | 0 comments

Long-form blog profile of OpenSSH creator Theo de Raadt, covering his NetBSD exit, lost DARPA grant, and security-focused philosophy.

Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs(clojure.org)

197 points by grzm 3 years ago | 121 comments

Axum 0.8(tokio.rs)

145 points by minimaxir 1 year ago | 46 comments

Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite(wafris.org)

328 points by thecodemonkey 2 years ago | 111 comments

Wafris blog post explaining why its open-source Rails web application firewall client moved from a Redis datastore to SQLite, with benchmark charts.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation(arstechnica.com)

523 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 99 comments

Ars Technica article reporting a court dismissed defamation claims against researchers who identified manipulated data, while Harvard still faces trial over its investigation.

Domain expertise has always been the real moat(brethorsting.com)

774 points by aaronbrethorst 4 months ago | 484 comments

Blog post arguing that agentic AI shifts software's binding constraint from building code to judging correctness, making domain expertise the real moat.

LLMs Aren't Inevitable(deadsimpletech.com)

27 points by rizsyed1 16 days ago | 32 comments

Blog post by Iris Meredith on deadSimpleTech arguing that AI and LLM adoption is not inevitable, calling the claim a thought-terminating cliché.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems(sylvainkalache.com)

359 points by sylvainkalache 1 month ago | 309 comments

Blog post by a former LinkedIn SRE arguing that AI tools automating incident response risk making engineers lose understanding of their systems.