There’s a question that quietly shapes the fate of technology talent in almost every organisation, and most businesses never ask it directly. Instead, they stumble into an answer through a…
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Read more →Every production database accumulates the same class of problems over time. Indexes fragment as rows are inserted and deleted unevenly. Dead tuples pile up faster than background processes can reclaim them. Queries that once ran against a small table now scan tens of millions of rows because nobody added an index when the table grew. […]
Read more →Published by Andrew Baker and the Capitec App Security Team | March 2026 For media enquiries and quotable statistics from this article, see the Press Summary at the end. Every…
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Read more →Java 26 landed on 17 March 2026, right on schedule as Oracle’s relentless six month cadence demands. As the first non-LTS release since Java 25, it ships ten JDK Enhancement Proposals, or JEPs. A JEP is the formal unit of change in the Java platform: a numbered design document authored by engineers from Oracle, the […]
Read more →1. Introduction Every engineering team that runs a high throughput transactional workload on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL will eventually arrive at the same uncomfortable question: why does the database start refusing to go faster, and what can actually be done about it? Aurora’s architecture is genuinely brilliant, but it introduces a set of write path constraints […]
Read more →Management and leadership sound so similar that they are often used interchangeably. True, they are both a sport. But details matter when you want to win. Nowhere is this more…
Read more →There is an old urban legend, immortalised as one of the original Darwin Award nominations, about a man who bolted a JATO unit to a 1967 Chevrolet Impala. JATO stands…
Read more →There is a product team performance bias hiding in plain sight inside every organisation that has moved to product aligned engineering, except that it does not show up as a…
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