Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python

Dropbox is a big Python shop. This article describes their long journey to adopt static checking, and all the things they did to increase adoption of this practice.

Containers: velocity through reduced coordination

"There are many amazing technical overviews on what containers are and how to use and productize them. This post focuses on how containers shift the organizational structure and that shift’s affect on velocity of delivery."

Policy-driven Continuous Integration with Open Policy Agent

"You’re probably already applying policies at the CI level but doing so in an ad hoc way. OPA enables you to make your implicit policies explicit and declarative." I may be biased but tools like OPA and Datree are the bees' knees 🐝

Kubernetes workloads in the Serverless era: architecture, platforms, and trends

This article offers a deeper look into different Kubernetes workloads and the limitations of serverless offerings. It starts by describing the evolution from monolith --> microservices 1.0 --> cloud-native architecture (microservices 2.0).

Mastering Node.js version management and npm registry sources like a pro

Our friends at Snyk shares how to make it easier to switch between different Node.js versions and between different npm registries while working in a development environment.

AWS Lambda cold start language comparisons, 2019 edition

Ooh this is fun. The contestants: Go 1.x, Node.js 8.10, Java 8, Ruby 2.5, Python 3.6 & .netcore 2.1. Which language is fastest you think.