In some companies, programmers ignore non-reproducable errors, however, the normal mission is to support testing and report them. Non-reproducible errors can be the ...

I have recently read and heard about situations in which Flex error handling is misunderstood. In this blog entry, I’ll attempt to demonstrate, with a simple ...

All programs use memory, even ones that do nothing. Memory misuse results in a good portion of fatal program errors, such as program termination and unexpected behavior. Memory is a device for ...

This version of the Ably Kafka Connector also features Kafka Connect dead letter queue (DLQ) support, where the connector can forward records to a DLQ topic. This greatly eases the debug and ...

Last month on my blog, I wrote about how my choice between two bookmark-sharing applications — Rubric and Scuttle — tipped in favor of the latter when I couldn ...

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is ...

There are few areas where AI has seen more robust deployment than the field of software development. From "vibe" coding to GitHub Copilot to startups building quick-and-dirty applications with support ...