The Foreman Problem: Managing Teams When Your Best Worker Isn't Human - Willian Correa

Every major technology shift invented a new management role. Steam power → foreman. Office computing → project manager. Internet → product manager. AI is doing the same, but this time the failure mode is invisible: confident, polished, wrong output. The new job is not directing effort but verifying that things that look like they're running actually are.

Who Will Be the Senior Engineers of 2035? - James Stanier

The traditional junior-to-senior pipeline is breaking: entry-level tech postings down 67% since 2022, junior employment down ~20%. Firms adopting AI saw junior employment fall 7.7% vs non-adopters. 54% of engineering leaders plan to hire fewer juniors.

Compound Engineering & Code Health

The Compounding Software Factory - Luca Rossi (Software Factory series, Part 3 of 3)

What causes teams to degrade: poor coding hygiene (bad testing, poor code health, missing abstractions), failure to capture knowledge (no ADRs, no playbooks, no snapshots), and building the wrong things.

AI Coding Meets Code Health - Stuart Caborn

Loveholidays' journey to becoming an AI-first engineering organization. Core thesis: code health is the foundation for successful AI adoption. By deliberately investing in code health metrics before adopting AI, they achieved 80+ deployments/month, 60% AI-written code, <1% change failure rate, all while maintaining elite code health.

Security & Infrastructure

The (In)security Landscape of AI-Powered GitHub Actions - Shay Berkovich

AI-powered GitHub Actions from vendors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are now running in thousands of public workflows. Research found bypasses of non-default configurations letting any external attacker trigger AI execution, a novel secret exfiltration vector for dynamically-created credential files, and widespread misconfigurations in production workflows.

The Invisible Engineering Behind Lambda's Network - Werner Vogels

A decade-long story of invisible infrastructure engineering by Lambda's networking team.

Career & Token Economics

Tokenmaxxing Is the Budget Game Played With AI Tokens - Willian Correa

Tokenmaxxing — maximising AI token consumption for visibility — is the corporate "use it or lose it" budget game in a new currency. Meta's internal "Claudeonomics" leaderboard ranked 85K employees by token consumption; top user burned 281B tokens in 30 days.

Tools

Use Compose Watch

Docker bind volumes gets a supercharge. Compose Watch does not replace bind mounts but exists as a companion specifically suited to developing in containers.

More importantly, watch allows for greater granularity than is practical with a bind mount. Watch rules let you ignore specific files or entire directories within the watched tree.
For example, in a Node.js project, it's not recommended to sync the node_modules/ directory. Even though JavaScript is interpreted, npm packages can contain native code that is not portable across platforms.

This case study dives into how Treezor went serverless for their banking platform. From legacy code running on servers to a serverless monolith, and then event-driven microservices on AWS with Bref.

Treezor is a high available banking application running mostly in PHP.

Wait, is cloud bad?

Forrest Brazeal review 37signals (Basecamp) movement from the Cloud back to DataCenter, their use-case and some reasoning about the mentioned arguments for Data Center.

ECS Blue/Green deployment with CodeDeploy and Terraform

How to make Rector Contribute Your Pull Requests Every Day

Do you enjoy making code-reviews with hundreds of rules in your head and adding extra work to the pull-request author?

We don't, so we let Rector for us in active code review.

Docker for the late majority

This is a guide for people who would like a brief introduction to Docker and are too afraid to ask for one. I get it. Everyone around you already seems to know what they’re talking about. Looking ignorant is no fun.

10 Essential PHP.ini Tweaks for Improved Web Performance

If you're running a website or web application with PHP, you may have encountered issues with slow loading times, high memory usage, or other performance problems. Fortunately, there are several tweaks you can make to your PHP configuration file (php.ini) to optimize your scripts and improve your website's performance. In this article, I'll cover the top 10 most common changes you might need to make to your php.ini file for best performance.

ExtendsClass provides tools directly usable in a browser. It saves you from having to install add-ons to your browser in order to add features.

You have at your disposal syntax validators, code formatters, testers, HTTP clients, mock server, but also a SQLite browser.

These are small and easy-to-use tools that can help when you do not want to install software on your workstation.

Solid Relevance

More topics that highlighs the importance of SOLID concepts. How they are key to develop a solid application.

Kubernetes: ClusterIP vs NodePort vs LoadBalancer, Services, and Ingress — an overview with examples

Dockerfile best practices

Writing production-worthy Dockerfiles is, unfortunately, not as simple as you would imagine. Most Docker images in the wild fail here, and even professionals often[1] get[2] this[2] wrong[3].

This repository has best-practices for writing Dockerfiles that I (@slimsag) have quite painfully learned over the years both from my personal projects and from my work @sourcegraph. This is all guidance, not a mandate - there may sometimes be reasons to not do what is described here, but if you don't know then this is probably what you should be doing.

How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You

When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the code is just as important to the review as the person who reads it. There’s scarcely any guidance on preparing your code for review, so authors often screw up this process out of sheer ignorance.

This article describes best practices for participating in a code review when you’re the author. In fact, by the end of this post, you’re going to be so good at sending out your code for review that your reviewer will literally fall in love with you.

Systemd allows you to configure a service so that it automatically restarts in case it’s crashed.

My Personal Best Practices For Using LaunchDarkly Feature Flags

The Most-Neglected Postgres Feature?

log_line_prefix should be the most-neglected postgres feature. Overused and mis-configured. The author talk about his finding, the great use and some tips for log_line_prefix configuration. This feature is very powerful on PostgreSQL.

Logical Replication Between PostgreSQL and MongoDB

A decoder plugin to enable logical replication from a PostgreSQL (as publisher) to MongoDB (as subscriber).

Awesome-Compose: Application samples for project development kickoff

A curated list of Docker Compose samples.

These samples provide a starting point for how to integrate different services using a Compose file and to manage their deployment with Docker Compose.

Arch Fun Statistics

Everyday Hacks for Docker

In this post, I’ve decided to share with you some useful commands and tools I frequently use when working with awesome Docker technology. There is no particular order or “coolness level” for every “hack.” I will simply present the use case and how the specific command or tool has helped me with my work. Read these great hacks and make sure to check out the great hack of all – Codefresh –  the best CI for Docker out there.

https://codefresh.io/docker-tutorial/not-ignore-dockerignore-2/

A video course Introduction to CQRS and Event Sourcing

There are over one million Dockerfiles on GitHub today, but not all Dockerfiles are created equally. Efficiency is critical, and this blog series will cover five areas for Dockerfile best practices to help you write better Dockerfiles: incremental build time, image size, maintainability, security and repeatability. If you’re just beginning with Docker, this first blog post is for you! The next posts in the series will be more advanced.

The case against the ifsetor function

how to traverse nested array structures with potentially non-existing keys without throwing notices

Laravel Beyond CRUD

Proposal for thinking Laravel applications using DDD approach. A blog series for PHP developers working on larger-than-average Laravel projects.

Designing Your First App in Kubernetes, Part 1: Getting Started

Kubernetes’s gravity as the container orchestrator of choice continues to grow, and for good reason: It has the broadest capabilities of any container orchestrator available today. But all that power comes with a price; jumping into the cockpit of a state-of-the-art jet puts a lot of power under you, but how to actually fly the thing is not obvious.

How to run short ALTER TABLE without long locking concurrent queries