The author combined Amazon’s API Gateway and FastSpring to monetize an API for malware scanning. They found that using FastSpring for payments and subscriptions provided better control over the checkout process compared to API marketplaces like AWS Marketplace or Rapid API. The solution involved cre.. read more  

Microsoft’s Build conference is taking place between May 21st and May 23rd. Expect plenty of AI announcements related to Windows 11 and Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PCs... read more  

GitHub Copilot Extensions from DataStax, Docker, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, and others will be available in the GitHub Marketplace... read more  

Gumroad pays hourly freelancers $125-$200/hr, with options for payment in stock. They issue annual dividends equal to 60% of the previous year's net income. The process for choosing and receiving equity is explained... read more  

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports version 10.4, offering key features from open-source Grafana versions 9.5 to 10.4, such as Correlations, Subfolders, and new visualization panels. Service Accounts Tokens have replaced API keys, providing better security and automation. Existing users can migrate .. read more  

IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp for $6.4 billion aligns well with its business strategy, particularly given the popularity of HashiCorp's Terraform and Red Hat Ansible. While the move has received mixed reactions due to HashiCorp's shift from open source to semi-proprietary licenses, forks like OpenT.. read more  

This course will teach you Rust's core concepts, one exercise at a time.You'll learn about Rust's syntax, its type system, its standard library, and its ecosystem... read more  

Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to spend €1 billion to expand its main data center in Finland, citing easy access to green energy as a key factor. The expansion will increase staffing by 25% to 500 people over the next two years. Google has not disclosed the impact of the investment on data capacity at.. read more  

What Postgres for Everything means to a dev deploying all sorts of databases. Spoiler: it’s about collapsing your stack and keeping it simple... read more  

Setting up a phone number for clients to schedule meetings is straightforward with the right tools like Twilio for phone number management and AWS for hosting in a Serverless Architecture. Express and ngrok are used for local development and testing... read more