Asking questions the right way

Engineers at all levels are encouraged to embrace curiosity, showcasing that asking questions, can pave the way for innovation and deeper understanding. Remember, the right question at the right time can be the catalyst for groundbreaking advancements in technology.

The Marketer's Guide to Composable Content (sponsor)

Creating and publishing content shouldn’t be that hard. Grab this marketer-accessible guide and refine your content strategy to better support leading omnichannel, personalization, and design methodologies.

How to build geolocation from scratch

Geolocation is the process of mapping IP addresses to a geographical location defined by latitude and longitude. There are many use-cases for geolocation intelligence that are demanded by online businesses and service providers.

When MFA isn't actually MFA

Due to a recent Google change, MFA isn't truly MFA. Retool notified some cloud customers that there had been unauthorized access to their accounts. Here’s what happened, with the hope that this will help apply the lessons we’ve learned and prevent more attacks across the industry.

Building Meta’s Threads App

The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. So did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch? Exclusive.

Exponential Value at Linear Cost

Binary search is kind a of a magical thing. With each additional search step, the size of the haystack we can search doubles. In other words, the value of a search is exponential in the amount of effort. That's a great deal. There are a few similar deals like that in computing, but not many. How often, in life, do you get exponential value at linear cost?

Death by a thousand microservices

The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills.