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Datadog can give organizations this functionality. You can pull in traces/spans, logs, metrics, and fully correlate across all of those different sources. Specifically for this blo…

> The old Trending algorithm was definitely flawed, but it was simple, objective, and ever so slightly ruthless. It heavily skewed toward JavaScript and web development, but under-…

> *from my high school years, where I first tasted the god-like feeling of dominance over software* This piece of writing killed the rest of this article for me. While his point is…

WeWork has $33.9 Billion in Non-canceable lease commitments, and it's lease payments are increasing 100% YoY. I think that is the true ticking time bomb for this company. In a worl…

This just in: "Money doesn't buy happiness" Is this truly new or even newsworthy information?

In my opinion the lesson to be learned here is not design related, but requirements related. Gather your requirements from your users before you implement a change, otherwise you'r…

Howard Husock, who wrote this article, is a VP for policy research at the Manhattan Institute. The Manhattan Institute is a conservative think tank with an agenda, so please take t…

Two points here really hit home with me about AWS (not in comparison to GCE though since I've never tried it). 1) Reserved Instances: I think the pricing model for this has become …

This paper seems to focus on old Apple hardware (the newest I can find is the iPhone 5s). I wonder what the results would be on Apple's newest hardware (6 and above).

This seems like a non-issue to me. If you're using an IaaS provider you should be treating the network as volatile from the get-go. This is the reason AWS has things like auto-scal…