Author: sparta

On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage

Amazon is doing more mass layoffs, claiming it wants to be more nimble. But are job losses really about US economic fears, and how Amazon’s retail business will be affected?

In 2019, I decided to write a book about software engineering. As an experienced software engineer and manager, I had the topic clear in my head, and assumed the whole project would take between six and 12 months in writing and publishing it.

A database permissions change ended up knocking Cloudflare’s proxy offline. Pinpointing the root cause was tricky – but Cloudflare shared a detailed postmortem. Also: announcing The Pragmatic Summit

A 30-person startup called Nasha Tech translated The Software Engineer’s Guidebook for the benefit of their company and the Mongolian tech ecosystem.

Deja vu: a large Cloudflare outage caused by an instantly rolled-out global config change – two weeks after a similar problem

You can style anything you want on the entire page when any given details element is open or closed.

To avoid page loading jank, there are things we can do to avoid content from shifting around, even if repainting is still necessary.

What can we say except BOINNNGGG BOINNGGGGGG.

All the big browser makers (and Igalia, a major contributor) dropped their timed blog posts announcing Interop 2026. I’ll link to Apple’s because I like how they used column-width on the feature list and I’m stealing that (in case you see this post directly). I’m a fan of all of it but of course I’m […]