Programming Digest #468: Inside the longest Atlassian outage of all time

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Inside the longest Atlassian outage of all time

Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and OpsGenie. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?

Picture perfect images with the modern element

You may not think about images as part of your web dev work, but they can affect your web app's performance more than any other part of your code.

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A tale of yak shaving: Accidentally making a language, for an engine, for a game

There's an old mantra in game development: "Don't make a game engine, make a game." - Confucius, 1337 A.D.

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