Somewhere in your data platform right now, a single configuration property is quietly deciding a meaningful percentage of your storage bill, your query latency, and your compute spend. It is probably set to whatever the defaults were in 2019, nobody has looked at it since, and it is the compression codec.
Compression is the most consequential invisible decision in data infrastructure. E...
The question I get most often after talks, after podcast episodes, and in newsletter replies is a simple one: where do I start with your books?
It is a fair question, because the library has grown. Between the O'Reilly and Manning flagships and the self-published series, there are now more than fifty titles at books.alexme...
Most enterprise security teams believe they have third party risk under control. They send out questionnaires, review SOC 2 reports, and negotiate vendor contracts.
In the age of enterprise AI, this traditional approach is no longer enough. It is dangerously incomplete.
The real risk has shifted from vendors to dependencies. We are moving away from legal agreements to neural wei...
I spent an afternoon last month wiring up an AI agent in raw TypeScript using the Anthropic SDK directly. The code worked, but I owned every piece of it: the tool dispatch loop, the conversation history array, the retry logic. Around 400 lines before the agent did anything interesting.
Mas...
Someone schedules a meeting. A few senior engineers walk through a runbook. Everyone agrees "yes, we could do this" and marks it complete.
Then the real disaster hits and nobody remembers the procedure, the runbook is 2 years out of date, and half the backup systems don't work.
Real DR drills test whether your team can actually reco...
Thanks @opacedigitalagency for the valuable suggestion. While exploring this topic further, I researched how different rendering strategies in Next.js impact SEO, performance, and user experience.
Many developers say:
"Nex...