octogene

Kotlin, Backend, Mobile Dev. I only code to drink ☕☕☕

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

What a line from the Arabian poet Nizar Qabbani

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

very cool study

very happy to see anthropic measuring the negatives as well. Honestly good for them

[Dr Milan Milanović @milan_milanovic]

Kubernetes killed more startups than server crashes ever did

You don't have Spotify's scale. You have 8 engineers and a single server that's running fine

But you watched a KubeCon talk, and now you've got 23 YAML files, a Helm chart nobody fully understands, and engineers debugging pod evictions instead of buildinga product

Your "cloud-native infrastructure" is just a cloud bill with extra complexity

A $50/month VM can handle millions of requests. Your startup will run out of money debugging networking issues long before you need horizontal pod autoscaling

The best infrastructure decision is often the simplest one

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

that's gonna be a no from me dawg

[DHH @dhh]

Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of services, are you even a real company? Never mind that this architecture was invented to cope with organizational dysfunction at planetary scale. Now it’s being prescribed to teams that still share a Slack channel and a lunch table.

Small teams run on shared context. That is their superpower. Everyone can reason end-to-end. Everyone can change anything. Microservices vaporize that advantage on contact. They replace shared understanding with distributed ignorance. No one owns the whole anymore. Everyone owns a shard. The system becomes something that merely happens to the team, rather than something the team actively understands. This isn’t sophistication. It’s abdication.

Then comes the operational farce. Each service demands its own pipeline, secrets, alerts, metrics, dashboards, permissions, backups, and rituals of appeasement. You don’t “deploy” anymore—you synchronize a fleet. One bug now requires a multi-service autopsy. A feature release becomes a coordination exercise across artificial borders you invented for no reason. You didn’t simplify your system. You shattered it and called the debris “architecture.”

Microservices also lock incompetence in amber. You are forced to define APIs before you understand your own business. Guesses become contracts. Bad ideas become permanent dependencies. Every early mistake metastasizes through the network. In a monolith, wrong thinking is corrected with a refactor. In microservices, wrong thinking becomes infrastructure. You don’t just regret it—you host it, version it, and monitor it.

The claim that monoliths don’t scale is one of the dumbest lies in modern engineering folklore. What doesn’t scale is chaos. What doesn’t scale is process cosplay. What doesn’t scale is pretending you’re Netflix while shipping a glorified CRUD app. Monoliths scale just fine when teams have discipline, tests, and restraint. But restraint isn’t fashionable, and boring doesn’t make conference talks.

Microservices for small teams is not a technical mistake—it is a philosophical failure. It announces, loudly, that the team does not trust itself to understand its own system. It replaces accountability with protocol and momentum with middleware. You don’t get “future proofing.” You get permanent drag. And by the time you finally earn the scale that might justify this circus, your speed, your clarity, and your product instincts will already be gone.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Just a month later and...

🇪🇺 ChatControl is back!

Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes

The new proposal:
- total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats, emails and social media in the EU
- obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat, email or social media account
- minimum age requirement for chat, email and social media apps of 16 (!)

The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it

Read more here by @echo_pbreyer:

https://t.co/Yg2iXX9uWs

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Pay attention to your money, but don't go cheap in the wrong areas...

Things that uplevel your work, your health, your future retirement, your skills, or create memories or bonds.

These are investments, not luxuries.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Fight Chat Control.

You cannot make society secure by making people insecure.

We all deserve privacy and security, without inevitably hackable backdoors, for our private communications.

The fact that the government officials want to exempt themselves from their own law is telling: https://t.co/s2AF6wMPL3

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

Many devs don’t understand that you’re supposed to use exceptions only for exceptional cases.

Exceptions are NOT for error handling.

[Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlin]

📢 The Kotlin 2.2.10 release is out! This version includes performance improvements and bug fixes for Kotlin 2.2.0. Check out the changelog for more details:
➡️ https://t.co/cysvqaUBjr

[octogene @_octogene]

@JorgeCastilloPr Hello 👋

[Better Software Conference @BetterSoftwareC]

Casey's talk is now available on YouTube. Enjoy!
https://t.co/2LO4lls2zx

[Pierre Beyssac 🏴‍☠️🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦 @pbeyssac]

Quelle honte, et quelle démission de la part de l'état français. Et j'ai encore plus honte quand je pense au nombre de politiques français qui se sont employés, sans vergogne, à charger Sansal et soutenir la dictature algérienne parce qu'ils ne partagent pas ses idées.

[Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlin]

🚀 Ktor 3.2.0 is out, bringing new features and performance improvements!

✨ New DI and HTMX modules
📦 Gradle version catalog support
🛠️ Automatic config deserialization
🔌 Unix socket support for CIO
And more!

Learn more! ⬇️
https://t.co/UX2oyHfhzU

[nicholas ⛱ @nnnnicholas]

it’s going to take a long time for ai designers to fully internalize that most people don’t know what to ask for

[Benjamin @sdblepas]

Le nombre de débiles sans cervelle (parfois dotés d’une chevelure de pub L’Oréal) qui pérorent sur l’Iran depuis cinq jours est absolument sidérant.

Heureusement, il reste en France quelques personnes qui savent vraiment de quoi elles parlent.
Des gens qui ont vécu cette mollahrchie de l’intérieur — pas depuis un plateau télé.

À écouter absolument : @shalmani_abby

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

software engineers afraid of losing their jobs misunderstand their profession and the craft
you are supposed to see patterns and solve business problems, do research to make the systems and product better
code is means to an end, not the end itself, it never was

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

If you haven't noticed that life, the universe, and everything has a bit of strangeness to it, you really haven't been paying attention.

There's a sense of irony embedded in things, a love of memery, a tendency for the absurd, as if spacetime has Dad humor.