Issue 321 - AWS actually discontinued an S3 feature.. (15)

Building a WebAuthn Click Farm — How a developer has attempted to build a ‘click farm’ to ‘bypass’ Cloudflare’s proposed CAPTCHA killer with some USB security keys, an Arduino, and a bit of Python.

Workshop: How to Build Reusable Infrastructure as Code Patterns — Learn how to build a reusable component for a hypothetical “production ready application” in Python.

Lift 1.0: Easily Deploy Well-Designed Serverless Applications on AWS — Lift uses the AWS CDK to “expand the Serverless Framework beyond functions” and handily comes as an easily installed Serverless Framework plugin. You can then use more CDK features in your project or even ‘eject’ back out once you’re done.

Forrester New Wave: Feature Management & Experimentation — [Download Today] Learn why leading industry analyst firm Forrester has identified Feature Management and Experimentation as the latest must-have DevOps tools to enable teams to create faster release cycles while staying connected with customers.

Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers — Reed–Solomon codes are a group of error correcting codes used in technologies as diverse as CDs, DSL connections and RAID. Bert attempts to boil down the math to an explanation you can follow.

'Why Senior Engineers Get Nothing Done' — This is one of those insightful but slightly flippant opinion posts where you might find things hit a little close to home. However you feel about it, being a senior software engineer in an organization is not necessarily what you think it might be at first glance and may not be the actual job you want.

An Illustrated Guide to How NAT Traversal Works — Just how can peer-to-peer connections be established between two machines in spite of all the obstacles in the way? This is a thorough look at a complex problem and solution.

How Dropbox Migrated From Nginx to Envoy — Two Dropbox engineers look at Dropbox’s old Nginx-based infrastructure, its pain points, and why they migrated to Envoy, another open source service proxy.

A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack — While I don’t think you can take pleasure in someone else’s outage, the story behind an outage can make for good reading indeed. So it goes here with a significant outage Slack had in May and it came down to how they were using HAProxy, one of my favorite bits of infrastructure software ever.

Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases — A Google engineer shares 17 insights about databases she’s picked up over the years. I strongly recommend this piece and I identify with lots of the points myself..

How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux — Even more exciting times are coming for development on Linux thanks to these technologies. A good overview.

The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder — This is not a technical article but is an important one nonetheless. Lee Holloway essentially programmed Cloudflare into being. But then he became distant and unpredictable, and what happened to him is something that could affect any of us 😔

The 'Year 2038 Problem' Is Already Causing Issues — In 2038, the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 (commonly used as an ‘epoch’ point) will exceed what can be stored in a signed 32 bit integer and this is A Problem™. Not only that, but it can be a problem now as seen in this Twitter thread.

How The Most Copied StackOverflow Snippet of All Time Is Flawed — An interesting part to this story is it’s the answer’s original author who’s also written the correction.