From the beginning, the focus of this blog has been technical, very rarely organizational. I broke this unwritten rule once in 2015. I began writing retrospectives in 2023 on the year that had passed. Let’s continue the tradition, but with a wider scope than before. The situation warrants it. More chaos It’s a hard realization to admit, but the world is spiraling deeper and deeper into chaos. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has now dragged into its third year, and still, neithe[…​]

I have been eyeing the YOW! conferences for probably more than a decade. They occur in Australia, and feature top industry experts. I was thus overjoyed when they invited me to speak on the YOW! tour earlier this year. Here’s a summary of my amazing time there. My participation YOW! takes place in three different cities: Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sidney. I presented my brand new talk on WebAssembly on Kubernetes in each city. It stems from an earlier article, which I reworked and updated[…​]

One of the most important concepts to master in Rust is ownership and borrowing. Tons and tons of articles are solely dedicated to this narrow subject. This one tries to explain the concept with examples. I hope it helps you. Ownership is a set of rules that govern how a Rust program manages memory. All programs have to manage the way they use a computer’s memory while running. Some languages have garbage collection that regularly looks for no-longer-used memory as the program runs; in other […​]