Java’s not just hanging on in 2025—it’s running the show. Over 90% of the Fortune 500 still trust it to power cloud platforms, big data pipelines, and IoT sprawl. What’s keeping it sharp? A brisk six-month release cadence. A battle-hardened ecosystem through OpenJDK and Jakarta EE. And a JVM that k..

A barebonestime-sharing OS kernel, written inZig, running onRISC-V. It leans onOpenSBIfor console I/O and timer interrupts. Threads? Statically allocated, each running inuser mode (U-mode). The kernel stays insupervisor mode (S-mode), where it catchessystem callsandcontext switchesvia timer ticks. ..

Daniel Temkin has written a book about44 esoteric programming languages, including Valence, which uses ancient Greek measuring symbols. Temkin emphasizes the significance of esoteric languages in promoting creativity and investigating the complicated nature of modern programming. These languages hav..

Fastly says95% of developersspend extra time fixing AI-written code. Senior engineers take the brunt. That overhead has even spawned a new gig: “vibe code cleanup specialist.” (Yes, seriously.) As teams lean harder on AI tools, reliability and security start to slide—unless someone steps in. The re..

Raku throws togethermulti-paradigm support,gradual typing,first-class regex grammars, andmetaprogrammingthat actually earns the name. It comes with built-in concurrency,multiple dispatch, and fresh tools likeRakuASTfor syntax-aware code wrangling...

Duolingo’s FinOps crew didn’t just track cloud costs—they wired up sharp, automated observability across 100+ microservices. Real-time alerts now catch AI and infra spend spikes before they torch the budget. They sliced TTS costs by 40% with in-memory caching. Dumped pricey CloudWatch metrics for P..

A decade in the trenches took one engineer from writing clean code to navigating company chaos—eventually landing in engineering management. The big shift? Less about scaling systems, more about scaling humans. What started with system design and production code morphed into leading teams, syncing ..

Pinterest rolled outPinConsole, a custom-built Internal Developer Platform powered byBackstage. Years of scattered tools had piled on complexity. This is their clean slate. PinConsole pulls developer workflows into one place, plugging intoPinCompute (Kubernetes),GitHub,Jira, andPagerDuty. It also b..

A fresh roundup drops20 go-to Linux commandsfor production sysadmins, dialing in on modern defaults likehtop > top,ss > netstat, andip > ifconfig. The shift? Faster tools that actually get updates. Built with systemd in mind, too. Expect the usual suspects—journalctl,rsync,crontab—all still pulling..