Background jobs improve backend reliability by moving heavy tasks into queues. Learn job architecture, retries, idempotency, and monitoring.

Architecting with portability in mind is the best way to minimize lock-in as AI pricing models evolve. Price hikes are inevitable.

Build the next wave of secure microservices — then keep the estate humming. We’re looking for a senior Java engineer who can design and ship Spring-based services, shape Angular UIs, and move ...

Build the next wave of secure microservices — then keep the estate humming. We’re looking for a senior Java engineer who can design and ship Spring-based services, shape Angular UIs, and move ...

In May 2025, the Google Photos app got an incredible feature: the ability to manually create photo stacks. Google Photos has long automatically created stacks of similar-looking pictures, helping to ...

Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. The tragedy of Jason Arday was barely wrapped up, his body not yet cold, before the racism cryers were swarming social media. ‘He’d still be ...

The word used to describe a pile of stuff. Now it has to do with a mechanistic pursuit of perfection. By Nitsuh Abebe The 20th century was different from today in many, many ways, but let’s focus for ...

On Sunday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doubled down on the shocking warning he issued earlier this month to businesses that use AI, taking it a step further this time. Companies that rely wholly on ...

THE EUROPEAN UNION frets a lot about whether it is competitive, but in one sector it leads the world: acronyms that infuriate foreigners. In recent months the EU’s Entry-Exit Scheme (EES) has caused ...

Startup Queue emerged from stealth to launch what it calls the first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy in the form of prescription medication kiosks. The Bay Area company secured $12.6 million in a ...

Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stacked another federal advisory panel with allies, advancing his efforts to force the Food and Drug Administration to reverse its stance on a ...