Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer
Writing is an increasingly important skill for engineering leaders. Indeed, poor writing can hamper career progression, above a certain level. Tactics for more clear, more frequent and more confident writing. I’ve observed that my writing is not up to par with my peers. How can I improve my professional writing, as someone working in tech?I get this question from many people: senior engineers who
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This past month, I have been enthralled by the Rust programming language given its unique edge for writing memory-safe, modern programs. Over the years, several languages have emerged as the most preferred by engineers to write resilient, backend software. The tides have shifted from Java/C++ into Go and Rust, which combine decades of programming language theory to build tools that are effective i
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転置インデックスは、検索エンジンの実装において、中心的な役割を果たすデータ構造である。 転置インデックスのデータ構造とアルゴリズムは、クエリ処理アルゴリズムとともに、検索エンジンの性能に直結する。とくに大規模な検索エンジンにおいては、キャッシュ効率を高めてクエリ処理を高速化するために、転置インデックスの圧縮は必要不可欠となっている。 この記事では、転置インデックス、とくにポスティングリストの圧縮について、近年の手法を簡単にまとめる。 目次 転置インデックスの基本 転置インデックスのデータ構造と特性 転置インデックスのアクセスパターン 近年のインデックス圧縮技法 Variable-Byte Family VByte Varint-GB Varint-G8IU Masked-VByte Stream-VByte Opt-VByte Simple Family Simple9 Simple16
Don't write clean code, write CRISP code — Bitfield Consulting
I’m sure we’re all in favour of “clean code”, but it’s one of those motherhood-and-apple-pie things that no one can reasonably disagree with. Who wants to write dirty code, unless maybe it’s for a porn site? The problem, of course, is that few of us can agree on what “clean code” means, and how to get there. A rule like “methods should only do one thing”, looks great on a T-shirt, but it’s not so
How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
Before we start: I'm hosting the first-ever The Pragmatic Summit on 11 February, 2026, in San Francisco. Join 400 top engineers and leaders as we answer the question: How is AI reshaping software engineering, dev workflows, and the modern engineering stack? Spaces are limited - don't miss out! Buy tickets here. Project management is a topic most people have strong opinions on, and I’m no exception
GitHub - modelcontextprotocol/servers: Model Context Protocol Servers
Official integrations are maintained by companies building production ready MCP servers for their platforms. 21st.dev Magic - Create crafted UI components inspired by the best 21st.dev design engineers. 2slides - An MCP server that provides tools to convert content into slides/PPT/presentation or generate slides/PPT/presentation with user intention. ActionKit by Paragon - Connect to 130+ SaaS inte
Published Jun 13, 2025 Our Research feature uses multiple Claude agents to explore complex topics more effectively. We share the engineering challenges and the lessons we learned from building this system. Claude now has Research capabilities that allow it to search across the web, Google Workspace, and any integrations to accomplish complex tasks. The journey of this multi-agent system from proto
The “Build Your Own Redis” Book is Completed | Blog | build-your-own.org
Read it here. Introduction Needless to say, the Redis project is quite a success. It’s an important component in backend applications. Redis could be considered one of the building blocks of modern computing. There are not many projects that fit the such role and stood the test of time. Here are some examples that meet my criteria of the “building block”: NGINX, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Linux ke
The Four Innovation Phases of Netflix’s Trillions Scale Real-time Data Infrastructure
The Four Innovation Phases of Netflix’s Trillions Scale Real-time Data Infrastructure My name is Zhenzhong Xu. I joined Netflix in 2015 as a founding engineer on the Real-time Data Infrastructure team and later led the Stream Processing Engines team. I developed an interest in real-time data in the early 2010s, and ever since believe there is much value yet to be uncovered. Netflix was a fantastic
I left OpenAI three weeks ago. I had joined the company back in May 2024. I wanted to share my reflections because there's a lot of smoke and noise around what OpenAI is doing, but not a lot of first-hand accounts of what the culture of working there actually feels like. Nabeel Qureshi has an amazing post called Reflections on Palantir, where he ruminates on what made Palantir special. I wanted to
Wasm 3.0 Completed Published on September 17, 2025 by Andreas Rossberg. Three years ago, version 2.0 of the Wasm standard was (essentially) finished, which brought a number of new features, such as vector instructions, bulk memory operations, multiple return values, and simple reference types. In the meantime, the Wasm W3C Community Group and Working Group have not been lazy. Today, we are happy t
Code improves with multiple reviews and revisions, and this process isn’t something that can be done alone. Spotting errors in code design is difficult at the best of times — and the closer you are to the work, the harder it can be to critique. That’s where code reviews come in. The beginning: introducing code reviewsWhat is a code review? Code improves with multiple reviews and revisions, and thi
PostgreSQL 14 Released!
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 14, the latest version of the world’s most advanced open source database. PostgreSQL 14 brings a variety of features that help developers and administrators deploy their data-backed applications. PostgreSQL continues to add innovations on complex data types, including more convenient access for JSON and support for n
The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit. I came of age in the 1980s, programming personal computers such as the Commodore VIC-20 and Apple ][e at home. Going on to study computer science (CS) in college and ultimately getting a Ph.D. at Berkeley, the bulk of my professional training was rooted in what I will call “classical” CS: p
I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, the whole post is a praise of how Shopify engages with Open Source communities. Hence, given the current climate, I don’t think I could publish it without addressing the elephant in the room first anyw
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These features change many different areas of MySQL, including client connectors, storage engine, optimizer, and replication. Each new major version of MySQL requires significant time and effort to migrate our worklo
How modern browsers work
Note: For those eager to dive deep into how browsers work, an excellent resource is Browser Engineering by Pavel Panchekha and Chris Harrelson (available at browser.engineering). Please do check it out. This article is an overview of how browsers work. Web developers often treat the browser as a black box that magically transforms HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into interactive web applications. In tru
PacketProxyで探るGemini CLIのコンテキストエンジニアリング 〜AIエージェントを信頼できる相棒に〜 | BLOG - DeNA Engineering
2025.07.18 技術記事 PacketProxyで探るGemini CLIのコンテキストエンジニアリング 〜AIエージェントを信頼できる相棒に〜 by akira.kuroiwa #gemini-cli #ai #security #ai-agent #context-engineering #packetproxy 「なんかよく分からないけど、すごい」で終わらせないために こんにちは、DeNA セキュリティ技術グループの 黒岩 亮 ( @kakira9618 ) です。 AIエージェント、とくに Gemini CLI のようなコーディングを支援してくれるツールは非常に強力で、私たちの開発体験を大きく変えようとしています。しかし、その一方で、こんな風に感じたことはありませんか？ 「このファイルの情報、勝手にAIに送られたりしない？ 大丈夫かな？」 と、情報管理・セキュリティ面で漠然と
One of the most impactful things we’ve worked on in TypeScript 5.0 isn’t a feature, a bug fix, or a data structure optimization. Instead, it’s an infrastructure change. In TypeScript 5.0, we restructured our entire codebase to use ECMAScript modules, and switched to a newer emit target. What to Know Now, before we dive in, we want to set expectations. It’s good to know what this does and doesn’t m
OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful — OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful
Preface About This Book Installing OCaml Introduction 1. Better Programming Through OCaml 1.1. The Past of OCaml 1.2. The Present of OCaml 1.3. Look to Your Future 1.4. A Brief History of CS 3110 1.5. Summary 2. The Basics of OCaml 2.1. The OCaml Toplevel 2.2. Compiling OCaml Programs 2.3. Expressions 2.4. Functions 2.5. Documentation 2.6. Printing 2.7. Debugging 2.8. Summary 2.9. Exercises OCaml
Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies | Blog | build-your-own.org
01. Complex systems are built from simple ideas Complex software like databases, compilers, and browsers are treated like black boxes. You use them every day as a user, but you probably don’t understand them as a programmer, even though they are nothing but code. Why? They have little in common with programmers’ daily task. Their code bases are so large, so discouraging. But that doesn’t mean you
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWSAugust 22, 2024 • 4802 words Marc Olson has been part of the team shaping Elastic Block Store (EBS) for over a decade. In that time, he’s helped to drive the dramatic evolution of EBS from a simple block storage service relying on shared drives to a massive network storage system that delivers over 140 trillion daily operations. In thi
I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI. The company I’m the CEO of, Anthropic, does a lot of research on how to reduce these risks. Because of this, people sometimes draw the conclusion that I’m a pessimist or “doomer” who thinks AI will be mostly bad or dangerous. I don’t think that at all. In fact, one of my main reasons for focusing on risks is that they’re the only thing standin
The MS-DOS Encyclopedia: Section I: The Development of MS-DOS
The MS-DOS Encyclopedia Section I: The Development of MS-DOS To many people who use personal computers, MS-DOS is the key that unlocks the power of the machine. It is their most visible connection to the hardware hidden inside the cabinet, and it is through MS-DOS that they can run applications and manage disks and disk files. In the sense that it opens the door to doing work with a personal compu
Encoding Team Standards
AI coding assistants respond to whoever is prompting, and the quality of what they produce depends on how well the prompter articulates team standards. I propose treating the instructions that govern AI interactions (generation, refactoring, security, review) as infrastructure: versioned, reviewed, and shared artifacts that encode tacit team knowledge into executable instructions, making quality c
Functional programming is finally going mainstream Object-oriented and imperative programming aren’t going away, but functional programming is finding its way into more codebases. Klint Finley // July 12, 2022 Paul Louth had a great development team at Meddbase, the healthcare software company he founded in 2005. But as the company grew, so did their bug count. That’s expected, up to a point. More
Hello everyone, Asahi Lina here!✨ marcan asked me to write an article about the M1 GPU, so here we are~! It’s been a long road over the past few months and there’s a lot to cover, so I hope you enjoy it! What’s a GPU?You probably know what a GPU is, but do you know how they work under the hood? Let’s take a look! Almost all modern GPUs have the same main components: A bunch of shader cores, which
The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography — Cryptography 47.0.0.dev1 documentation
The recipes layer Fernet (symmetric encryption) X.509 The hazardous materials layer Primitives Exceptions Random number generation Decrepit cryptography The cryptography open source project Installation Changelog Frequently asked questions Development Use of OpenSSL Security Known security limitations API stability Doing a release Community Glossary Statements The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptog
Assessing Claude Mythos Preview’s cybersecurity capabilities April 7, 2026 Nicholas Carlini, Newton Cheng, Keane Lucas, Michael Moore, Milad Nasr, Vinay Prabhushankar, Winnie Xiao Hakeem Angulu, Evyatar Ben Asher, Jackie Bow, Keir Bradwell, Ben Buchanan, David Forsythe, Daniel Freeman, Alex Gaynor, Xinyang Ge, Logan Graham, Kyla Guru, Hasnain Lakhani, Matt McNiece, Mojtaba Mehrara, Renee Nichol, A
Sponsored by: Teleport — Connect agents to your infra in seconds with Teleport Beams. Built-in identity. Zero secrets. Get early access 1st October 2022 Gergely Orosz started a Twitter conversation asking about recommended “software engineering practices” for development teams. (I really like his rejection of the term “best practices” here: I always feel it’s prescriptive and misguiding to announc
This is an upcoming high performance computing book titled “Algorithms for Modern Hardware” by Sergey Slotin. Its intended audience is everyone from performance engineers and practical algorithm researchers to undergraduate computer science students who have just finished an advanced algorithms course and want to learn more practical ways to speed up a program than by going from $O(n \log n)$ to $
秘密鍵のファイル周りの話
開発していると、公開鍵暗号の技術を利用する場面は多々ある。 EC2インスタンスへのSSHする時や、Snowflakeの認証時に RSA キーペアの秘密鍵を利用する 公開鍵証明書 ... いろんな用語、トピックがあり混乱するのでまとめてみた。 ここではとりあえず特にRSA暗号を念頭に置き話を進める。 規格群 そもそも公開鍵暗号に関する技術はいろいろな形で規格が定められていたり、標準化されていたりする。 PKCS Public-Key Cryptography Standards の略で、RSAセキュリティというソフトウェア会社が考案した公開鍵暗号の規格群のこと。元々はRSAセキュリティ社が自社の暗号技術に関する特許を利用促進するために発行したのがはじまり。 近年ではその一部は IETF などと標準化が進められており、 RFC として整備されているものも多い。 内容ごとに PKCS #1 など
Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones - Microsoft Research
Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones Published May 5, 2021 Episode 120 | May 5, 2021 Today, people around the globe—from teachers to small-business owners to finance executives—use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the information that occupies their respective worlds, and whether they realize it or not, in doing so, they’re taking on the role of program
The SaaS CTO Security Checklist Redux - Gold Fig — Peace of mind for infrastructure teams
Doing the basics goes a long way in keeping your company and product secure. This third1 edition of the SaaS CTO Security Checklist provides actionable security best practices CTOs (or anyone for that matter) can use to harden their security. This list is far from exhaustive, incomplete by nature since the security you need depends on your company, product, and assets. 🚀 Your employees Accustom e
Exactly twenty years ago, on April 7, 2005, Linus Torvalds made the very first commit to a new version control system called Git. Torvalds famously wrote Git in just 10 days after Linux kernel developers lost access to their proprietary tool, BitKeeper, due to licensing disagreements. In fact, in that first commit, he’d written enough of Git to use Git to make the commit! Git’s unconventional and
Data Race Patterns in Go
You’re seeing information for Japan . To see local features and services for another location, select a different city. Show more Uber has adopted Golang (Go for short) as a primary programming language for developing microservices. Our Go monorepo consists of about 50 million lines of code (and growing) and contains approximately 2,100 unique Go services (and growing). Go makes concurrency a firs
There is a scene in the movie version of Carl Sagan’s book Contact where the main character, an astronomer who has detected the first radio signal from an alien civilization, is being considered for the role of humanity’s representative to meet the aliens. The international panel interviewing her asks, “If you could ask [the aliens] just one question, what would it be?” Her reply is: “I’d ask them
Companies Using RFCs or Design Docs and Examples of These
RFCs - requests for comment - or Design Docs are a common tool that engineering teams use to build software faster, by clarifying assumptions and circulating plans earlier. There are some similarities between writing automated tests for your code, and writing RFCs before you start working on a non-trivial project: Software engineers who write tests for their code - and ask for code reviews on it -
Rust is becoming a first class language in a variety of domains. At Discord, we’ve seen success with Rust on the client side and server side. For example, we use it on the client side for our video encoding pipeline for Go Live and on the server side for Elixir NIFs. Most recently, we drastically improved the performance of a service by switching its implementation from Go to Rust. This post expla
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