Why the next Chrome version will break websit...

The infinite scroll in social media as we know it today is despised by all. But it always start as a bad idea. It originated as a result of UI change to relief the backend database from inefficient queries. I explore this in this episode of the backend engineering. 0:00 Intro1:00 ...  Show more

An aws engineer discovered a 50% regression in postgres throughput while testing the new Linux 7.0 kernel. The cause turns out to be massive TLB and page faults exacerbated by Postgres process-based design. In this backend engineering show episode I dive deep into how this was di ...  Show more

Who would've of thought that Google could get any more powerful? Well we certainly didn't. Google has now introduced how their searchn engine will now be more than 1000 times powerful than their current one. In this episode we also talk about how cyber criminals are exploiting th ...  Show more

Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI's impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diagrams from your database, Mozilla takes on Gmail with "Thundermail", algernon explains why grepping remains terrible & Vitor M. de ...  Show more

The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT's "missing semester" course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access log ...  Show more

<span style="font-weight: 400;">(Originally aired on YouTube on May 30, 2018)</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Rick and Tim talk about how insecure much of the web really is, the various vulnerabilities in web security that can leave you open to attack, the challe ...