A mid-career dev hits pause after ten years in the game -realizing core skills likepolymorphism, SQL, and automated testingnever quite clicked. Leadership roles, shipping products, mentoring junior devs - none of it filled those gaps. They'd been writingC#/.NETfor a while too. Not out of love, just .. read more  

A new Go tutorial shows how to build a lean, fast blockchain - clocking ~10,000 TPS - without the usual bloat. It covers the full stack:P2P networking,custom consensus, and properstate management. No unbounded mempools. No missing snapshots. Just a chain that actually runs, benchmarked on real machi.. read more  

The Socket Threat Research Team has been following North Korea’s Contagious Interview operation as it targets blockchain and Web3 developers through fake job interviews. The campaign has added at least197 malicious npm packagesand over31,000 downloadssince last report, showcasing the adaptability of.. read more  

This post discusses best practices for automated testing in software engineering, including unit tests and integration tests for databases, APIs, and emulators. It also covers end-to-end tests using tools like Cypress, Appium, Postman, and more. Additionally, it highlights the importance of environm.. read more  

DynamoDB starts to grumble when a single partition gets hit with more than 1,000WCU. To dodge throttling, writes need to fan out across shards. Recommended move: start with10 logical shards. WatchCloudWatch metrics. DialNup or down. Letburstandadaptive capacitybuy you breathing room - untilSplit-for.. read more  

A fresh blog post dives into how to get devs pulling their weight ontest automation- not as extra credit, but as part of shipping code. The playbook: tie automation work straight to thedefinition of done, clear up who owns what, and stop pretending delivery pressure is a mystery. The big idea? Most .. read more  

At Trendyol, they runover 2,000 iOSpipelines daily across130 Mac machines, executing50,000+ unit testsand10,000+ UI testsfor their iOS apps. The team initiated a mobile CI transformation to address the challenges of scale and performance as their team grew and AI usage increased. They built a macOS .. read more  

Kubernetes 1.33 and 1.34 takein-place Pod resource updatesfrom beta to battle-ready. You can now tweak CPU and memory on the fly - no Pod restarts needed. It's on by default. What’s new: memory downsizing with guardrails, kubelet metrics that actually tell you what’s going on, and smarter retries th.. read more  

HAProxy just droppedUniversal Mesh, a fresh spin on service mesh design. Forget the per-service sidecars - this model plants high-speed gateways at the network edges instead. Result? Lighter by 30–50% on resources, easier to upgrade, and way less hassle routing traffic across Kubernetes, VMs, and cl.. read more  

TheIngress NGINX projectis riding off into the sunset by March 2026. Time to pick a new horse. One strong contender: theHAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. It matches feature-for-feature, comes with deeper observability, and reloads configs without taking your cluster offline. HAProxy’s not stopp.. read more