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Since we launched Hill Charts in Basecamp we’ve been fielding many interesting questions. One common question is: how do we catch more…

A year ago we’ve added SMART metrics collection to our monitoring agent that collects disk drive attributes on clients servers.

Around March of 2017, I received a call asking for a code review on a product about to be launched. This company had issues with memory leaks, spontaneous crashing, slow loading, CPU spiking, and had to release in a couple of weeks. You might have heard this story before, just not from me, and not about this company. It’s surprisingly common. We got together on the weekend and started looking through the code together.

To be honest, GraphQL had its dose of hype the last months.

Do you test your forms on real users and real devices? If not, you should. Let’s take a look at some of the techniques that can help you take your forms to the next level and help users fill them in.

by Brian Chambers, Caleb Hurd, and Alex Crane

by Brian Chambers, Caleb Hurd, Sean Drucker, Alex Crane, Morgan McEntire, Jamie Roberts, and Laura Jauch (the Chick-fil-A IOT/Edge team)

And other things you’re doing wrong, according to Patty McCord.

Yagni ("You Aren't Gonna Need It") is the principle that we should not build presumptive features. It should not be used as a justification for neglecting internal quality.

A long-form article entitled: "Domain Logic and SQL"

Posted by Craig McLuckie, Co-founder of Kubernetes and Senior Product Manager at Google "So let me get this straight. You want to build an...

The famed mechanical keyboard switch manufacturer Cherry has been around since the 1950s—but it's only been defined by keyboard switches in the past decade.

On July 19, CircleCI faced a sitewide outage which left thousands of teams unable to test and deploy builds for the better part of a day. This outage affected the productivity of many development teams, and surely caused a few missed deadlines. We value the trust our customers place in us, and are deeply sorry for the effect this had on their work. For those interested, we want to give more details as to what happened, why it happened, and what we’re doing about it.

Hyperbolic click-bait title aside, I wish to convince you that the effective Tech Lead is a force-multiplier and a unicorn-cousin of the…

Stewart Butterfield’s startup will subsume Atlassian’s corporate chat tools to take on Microsoft.

The Technology Blog of author and software developer Matt Butcher.

A strategy guide for using a semi-pointless social network in all the wrong ways.

We disassembled the phone and asked security researchers to probe it to find out what it is. Verdict: It's wild.

Hackers apply stolen data in a flood of login attempts, called "credential stuffing." They target bank accounts, airline miles, and even online grocery sites.

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Some of them will always apply!

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

Kubernetes and related technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift and Istio, provide the non-functional requirements that used to be part of an application server and the additional capabilities described in this article. Does that mean application servers are dead?

Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…

There’s always a reason to rebuild. Perhaps you’re a CEO of a startup that’s had some success and your engineers are clamoring to replatform and do a rewrite from scratch. Perhaps you’re an executive or IT lead and you’re counting the cost of pulling the trigger on a rewrite of a legacy application. Perhaps you’re a lead engineer in the midst of a rebuild and are having second thoughts (am I crazy?). Regardless of where you’re at, you likely already know that talk of rebuilds, like talk of tax reform or anarchy, is just a tad bit dangerous—you never know what kind of danger you’ll end up in...

In recent months, we've talked about our plans for Red Hat CoreOS, the new immutable, container-centric operating system bringing automated operations to Red Hat OpenShift. This week, the Fedora project announced the official launch of the Fedora CoreOS project, a new open source community effort under the Fedora banner.

By Appu Goundan and Qingyang Chen Containers are bringing Java developers closer than ever to a "write once, run anywhere" workflow, but c...