
Is the FDE role becoming less desirable?
Job postings for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) have surged, but many professionals don’t want the role because it’s more like solutions engineerin...

Job postings for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) have surged, but many professionals don’t want the role because it’s more like solutions engineerin...

An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is a short document that captures and explains a single decision relevant to a product or ecosystem. Documents s...

David Poll points out the flawed premise of the argument that code review is a bottleneck To be fair, finding defects has always been listed as a goal...

Conversations with AI are ephemeral, decisions made early lose attention as the conversation continues, and disappear entirely with a new session. Rah...

Overview of text diffusion models: how masking-based diffusion works, where it differs from autoregressive LLMs, and when it can offer speed.

An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and...

Naresh Jain has long been uncomfortable with software patents. But a direct experience of patent aggression, together with the practical constraints f...

Use Watchtower on Ubuntu to automate Docker image updates and keep running containers automatically redeployed and up to date.

Rahul Garg continues his series of Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development . This pattern describes a structured conversation that m...
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Sonnet 4.6 driven application compiles data from your email, calendar, to-do list, the news, weather and provides you with once-a-day tailored updates...

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants - lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He's noticed fiv...

Run blue-green deployments on DigitalOcean Kubernetes with Gateway API—safe cutover, instant rollback, and zero-downtime releases with managed databas...

Defense in depth for SSH with Fail2Ban, nftables, and DigitalOcean Cloud Firewalls. Harden Ubuntu and block brute-force attacks via a bastion.

Explore the LangMem SDK for agent long-term memory features, architecture, and how it enables persistent, context-aware AI agents.

I try to limit my time on stage these days, but one exception this year is at DDD Europe . I’ve been involved in Domain-Driven Design , since its very...

If you've hung around agile circles for long, you've probably heard about the concept of servant leadership , that managers should think of themselves...

I’ll start with some more tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat ❄ ❄ We were tired after the event, but o...

I’ve been busy traveling this week, visiting some clients in the Bay Area and attending The Pragmatic Summit. So I’ve not had as much time as I’d hope...

I used to pay $120/year for a SaaS that hasn’t added new features in four years, and didn’t fix its broken billing system for three years. Using an LL...
tl;dr: mods applications and minor rules changes. Also it's 2026, lol. Hello fellow programs! It's been a while since I've checked in and I wanted to...
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