Role of algorithms

Algorithms are a useful skill not because you use it at work every day, but because they train you to be better at particular aspects of software engineering.

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How it works: The novel HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack

Learn how the new DDoS attack technique Rapid Reset works, and how to mitigate it.

Microservices without reason

Too many companies default to microservices, and with it comes increasing development and operational costs, a decrease in software quality, and a decrease in team motivation.

The fraud was in the code

The jury got a taste of code review as they examined a falsified "insurance fund" and the infamous FTX → Alameda Research "backdoor".

How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x

We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twitter wrote to build and scale their original consumer product, which is very similar to Mastodon.