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Floridians and folks looking for work in the SE: there's a free jobs mailing list with hundreds of members. I've had it going for nearly 15 years! Check it out. /Mike Levin…Continue
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Starting and Running Your Own Company, by Matt Raible
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Welcome to Codetown!
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Presentation: Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun
Holly Cummins & Trisha Gee explain how to achieve the "Double Win" - boosting both developer joy and productivity. They expose the flaws of traditional metrics, identify sources of developer toil (slow builds, flaky tests), and share methods and techniques (like boredom and play) for engineering leaders and architects to unlock creativity and a 31% boost in positive-brain productivity.
By Holly Cummins, Trisha GeeHashiCorp’s New Guide Offers Practical Advice on Writing and Rightsizing Terraform Modules
In a blog post titled "How to write and rightsize Terraform modules", HashiCorp shares a comprehensive framework for creating maintainable, scalable modules in the Terraform ecosystem. Author Mitch Pronschinske draws on insights from consultant Rene Schach's HashiDays 2025 session to focus on four key pillars: module scope, code strategy, security, and testing.
By Craig RisiMicrosoft Patches Critical ASP.NET Core Vulnerability with 9.9 Severity Score
Microsoft recently released a security advisory and patched a critical vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that allows an attacker to bypass a security feature over a network due to an inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests. With a CVSS score of 9.9 out of 10, CVE-2025-55315 is the highest-rated Microsoft vulnerability.
By Renato LosioGoogle Cloud Introduces Chaos Engineering Framework and Recipes for Distributed Systems
Google Cloud's Expert Services Team has released a detailed guide on chaos engineering for cloud-based distributed systems. It highlights that the intentional creation of failures is essential for developing resilient architectures. The initiative provides open-source recipes and helpful guidance for applying controlled disruption testing in Google Cloud environments.
By Claudio MasoloArticle: When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale
Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions meant to simplify become hidden fragility points. Success requires profiling on target hardware, relentlessly monitoring boring details, keeping hot paths lean, and trusting instrumentation over theory.
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