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August 09, 2021

12 ways to make really bad technology decisions

So little time, so many ways technology decisions can go wrong. If you want to make wise technology choices, don’t let these decision-making anti-patterns get in the way. Read more ▶

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Real IT leadership: Selling the transformative dream

It's one thing to cook up a great new initiative, but making it happen requires powers of persuasion, solid partnerships, and access to genuine technical insight.

How SLOs and error budgets improve app reliability

These practical tools help devops teams balance operational issues and the pursuit of perfection.

The persistence of database time

Database popularity rises and falls over decades, not years. The databases that developers are interested in trying today may permeate the enterprises of the future.

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Cyclic garbage collection: Python memory management, Part 2

A closer look at the internals of Python's memory management system. In this video we examine the behavior of Python's cyclic garbage collector, which detects and removes orphaned objects that hold references only to each other, and uses object-count thresholds to run only when needed.

Developers love Rust and Svelte, dread AngularJS, Stack Overflow survey says

2021 survey by the developer Q&A site also found that developers earn more for Clojure, DynamoDB, AWS, and Ruby on Rails.

What’s new in Rust 1.54

Rust was designed to make it easy to develop fast and safe system-level software. Here’s what’s new.

JDK 17: The new features in Java 17

Always-strict floating point semantics, a foreign function and memory API, and a uniform API for pseudo random number generators are planned for the Java long-term support release due in September.

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