Developer productivity depends on flow: the state where engineers maintain focus, context and momentum. When issues are discovered late in the development process – after commits, code reviews or CI ...

Cloudflare recently announced support for aggregations in R2 SQL, a new feature that lets developers run SQL queries on data ...

Somtochi Onyekwere explains the architecture of Corrosion, a distributed system designed for low-latency state replication. She shares how Fly.io transitioned from Consul to a gossip-based SQLite ...

As you finish up your manuscript, the next step is often shopping it around to potential publishers. While this can be a daunting and time-consuming task, it doesn’t have to be a particularly ...

The ‘Rents reflect on 2025 and look ahead to what they hope to take into the new year with them. Plus! Poetry! If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone ...

AI chatbots learn more about us with every interaction. They can therefore tease out patterns in our thinking. They're no substitute for a friend or therapist, though. "You're the kind of person who ...

Despite the rapid adoption of LLM chatbots, little is known about how they are used. We document the growth of ChatGPT’s consumer product from its launch in November 2022 through July 2025, when it ...

If your AI outputs sound generic — your inputs probably are too. The best AI users aren’t tech wizards — they’re master communicators. And they’ve learned to speak robot. Like people, AI has its own ...

The role of the DBA is complex, requiring expertise in designing, implementing, managing, and tuning database systems. DBAs are also tasked with supporting developers, so they need to understand how ...