Engineering

Programmers tend to fight about why Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is good or bad. Among the anti-OOP crowd, I often see junior programmers hate on OOP and “rebroadcast” what they’ve heard experienced programmers say. But when challenged to explain why OOP is bad, they have a hard time explaining it. It’s usually because they haven’t really experienced those things first hand. I’d like to take a positive spin on this and say: Just write your code in a way that makes sense to you.

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Route paths on your domain to different microfrontends.

Rendering millions of spans in a browser isn’t easy. Most UIs choke under that kind of load. Here’s how we scaled trace visualisation to handle it seamlessly.

UA+ (User agent plus), a different type of reset style sheet

Causes and Mitigations for Latency in Distributed Systems

And, so, today, OpenSSL 3.5.0 was released, and which supports a range of PQC methods and 0-RTT [here]: Overall, we have stuck with the 3-way handshake for many decades, and it is now seen as too…

Understanding Local and Global Secondary Indexing for Large-Scale Systems

A minimalist Git GUI for VSCode.

Although the layered model is one of the first things we learn when starting out with networking—and most textbooks introduce it right at the beginning—there is surprisingly little hands-o

Websockets are powerful tools that have become a fan-favorite for building realtime applications, but you might be using them for all the wrong reasons. Let's explore the pitfalls of websockets and how we can use plain old HTTP to get the same job done.

Over the last few years, I’ve met several fresh developers who jumped…

Production Case Studies from Ambitious Web Projects (2022–2025)

GoatDB - Official Site — Build Your Next Project on GoatDB, the Edge-Native Database. GoatDB empowers frontend developers to build and deploy complex, scalable, and secure applications in under 20 minutes—without requiring backend expertise. It’s the fastest and easiest way to create modern apps, tailored for today’s developer needs.

Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

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Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?

Learn how CKEditor optimized its rich text editor to load up to 2000% faster with smart performance improvements.

To provide the best experience, we’re always improving our rich text editor. This time, we focused on loading speed—see what we’ve accomplished!

The Virtual DOM (VDOM) is no longer necessary. The web isn’t stagnant, and neither are browsers. Yet, I still see people praising it as something cutting-edge and relevant without understanding what it actually is or why it was needed in the first place.

If you’ve ever waited too long for a database query to finish, you know the pain of slow performance. The good news? Indexes are here to save the day!

Learn the basics of Test-Driven Development (TDD) with this practical guide. Discover how to start, improve code quality, and build a sustainable TDD practice.

A guide to considerations when implementing speculation rules, particularly for more complex sites.

Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.

A Gentile Introduction to Logic Programming using Answer Set Programming (ASP).

The Storage Access API provides a way for cross-site content loaded in a third-party context (i.e., embedded in an

Bringing signals to HTML.

Redis' creator on why blogging is fundamental for successful projects, his writing process, and AI in writing