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When writing an HTTP server or client in Go, timeouts are amongst the easiest and most subtle things to get wrong: there’s many to choose from, and a mistake can have no consequences for a long time, until the network glitches and the process hangs.

Once upon a time, in a very far-off land, there lived front end developers who had been so fortunate to develop web UI on their powerful…

In this talk Brendan give us insights into the process of standardisation of JavaScript at TC39, then covers some of the features of ES Next, and reminds us ...

Why do we need to talk about robust JavaScript and how do we achieve it?

Testing is a controversial topic. People have strong convictions about testing approaches. Test Driven Development is the most prominent…

We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it, and every big company is working on projects around ‘AI’. We know this is a Next Big Thing. I don't think, though, that we yet have a settled sense of quite what machine learning -

HTTP headers are an important way of controlling how caches and browsers process your web content. But many are used incorrectly or pointlessly, which adds overhead at a critical time in the loading of your page, and may not work as you intended.

Ever wondered how large enterprise scale systems are designed? Before major software development starts, we have to choose a suitable…

See what's new in Rails 5.2 and try its brand new Active Storage framework for file uploads with our detailed hands-on guide. Also covering Credentials, Current singleton, CSP configuration, Bootsnap.

I did yet another study on 100 codebases, this time to see the effects of unit testing. The results surprised me, and I'm guessing they'll surprise you.