I have spent almost the entire last decade in a fairly specialized product company, building high performance I/O systems. I had the opportunity to see storage technology evolve rapidly and decisively. Talking about storage and its developments felt like preaching to the choir. This year, I have switched jobs…

Writing compliant and secure backends are hard. Here’s what developers do to make this problem more manageable — Every frontend developer knows, or at least suspects, that backends are hard. But why would that be? There is nothing intrinsically difficult with the business logic of backends: after all, it’s just code and algorithms. …

Environmental concerns + artificial intelligence = ChiselStrike? — One of the hardest parts of creating any product or service is getting people to know about it. It’s harder than it sounds: you only have a couple of seconds to grab the user’s attention. …

In a trip down memory lane, I recall my experience with QEMU, and how the project changed completely to accommodate a new industry trend. Is SQLite history rhyming all over again? — I first heard of QEMU in the early 2000s. QEMU was the brainchild of Fabrice Bellard. Fabrice is, without any exaggeration, a true genius. Don’t believe me? Those are just some of his achievements from his Wikipedia page:

Naive architectures skip the implementation of message queues, but this causes problems later on. Read this to find out why this is bad. — Modern real-time oriented backends depend on a server side message queue in order to deliver a timely experience to users. Fast moving application developers skip out on messaging queues because they’re hard for them to understand and build, but this is a mistake.

Remix.run is gaining ground as a powerful and friendly Javascript framework. Read on to explore how to make it even better by provisioning its databases in under a minute. — Originally posted to the ChiselStrike blog on Medium.com. [github] [discord] What is Remix? Remix is a react-based fullstack web framework that is now living rent free on my twitter feed. With all this praise, I’ve decided to take it for a spin. …

Originally posted to the ChiselStrike blog on Medium.com. [github] [discord] Oh, language wars. If there is anything more fulfilling than fighting over editors and IDEs, that’s fighting over programming languages. …

What would you do, if suddenly you could not access the internet? Many Canadians recently found out the hard way, when the Rogers outage took down almost a third of the country for an entire day. I myself, felt like I was back in the stone age.

Around 6 months ago, we embarked on a journey to come up with a simpler way for application developers to handle their data layers. By viewing everything in the backend as code — from the database to the business logic — we believed we could capture enough intent to automate…