A guide to implementing and configuring health checks in ASP.NET Core applications, including database monitoring with Entity Framework Core.
Explores the challenges, trade-offs, and benefits of using merge queues in CI/CD pipelines to improve code quality and stability.
A technical guide on detecting and escaping in-app browsers on Android and iOS using JavaScript libraries and platform-specific URL schemes.
How to fix Graph API queries filtering members in Entra groups and administrative units by user extension attributes.
Compares performance of Invoke-MgGraphRequest's -OutputFilePath parameter versus piping to Out-File for saving JSON data.
Explains how the C# compiler transforms async/await code into a state machine, detailing the process with a simplified example.
A guide exploring data fetching in Next.js using Server Actions and comparing it to Server Components and Route Handlers for client-side scenarios.
Swift 6 introduces an opt-in compiler mode to detect and prevent data race conditions at compile time, enhancing concurrent programming safety.
A guide on using Swift 5's custom string interpolation feature to simplify and streamline localization in iOS/macOS applications.
A guide on managing Swift version compatibility and requirements in Swift Package Manager (SPM) projects.
How eBPF technology can prevent system crashes like the massive July 2024 Windows outage caused by a faulty kernel driver update.
Analysis of the 2024 CrowdStrike outage that crashed 8.5 million Windows systems, exploring the technical cause and industry-wide cultural problems.
Microsoft releases a USB recovery tool to help IT admins fix Windows systems affected by the recent CrowdStrike Falcon agent update crash.
A tutorial on advanced text styling in R's ggplot2, including dynamic color adjustment and using the new {marquee} package for markdown formatting.
CrowdStrike's security updates caused crashes on Debian and Rocky Linux servers, revealing gaps in their testing procedures.
A global IT outage caused by a logic error in a CrowdStrike security update, leading to widespread system crashes (BSOD).
Explores recent research on instruction finetuning for LLMs, including a cost-effective method for generating synthetic training data from scratch.
Explores recent research on instruction finetuning for LLMs, including cost-effective data generation methods and an overview of new models like Gemma 2.
A technical comparison of self-hosting a service on a Raspberry Pi 5 versus renting a VPS, analyzing costs, complexity, and pros/cons.
A list of upcoming tech talks and events by Alex Merced, focusing on Apache Iceberg, data lakehouses, and data engineering topics.
