The Technically Library

Retrieval Augmented Generation is a way to make AI models more personalized

The magic behind the qualitative side of product analytics

Memory leaks, developer productivity, and JSON

Why product analytics tools like Mixpanel are focusing on the warehouse

What actually happened from a technical perspective

All about how apps talk to one another

Honoring our late friend, Heroku, may its memory be a blessing

What's the point of an API if you have a database?

Death, taxes, and outages: why being a software engineer isn't always so cushy.

How do ChatGPT, Mistral, Gemini, and Llama3 stack up for common tasks like generating sales emails?

Why your feature is held up by a migration and why it's actually good

Sentry is an error-tracking and performance-monitoring platform to help developers diagnose and fix issues in their code.

Beware the benchmark.

A roundup of 2023's Technically posts and what to look for next year.

Why that schema change is going to take your engineers two weeks

Helping everyone's code stay vulnerability free

Open source vs. open core, different cloud providers, and what browsers are

Zapier is a tool that helps business people make custom integrations between their favorite tools, without needing to write any code.

WebAssembly is an experimental technology that allows developers to build really fast web applications that run in your browser.

Observability is how businesses know what’s going on with their different systems and operations.

Part II of the Low Code series looks at what people actually use it for

Google's search engine, but for everyone

Can we finally get rid of usernames and passwords?

Client libraries, AWS spend, feature flags, and helm charts

Getting info from websites automatically, with code

Your data team’s favorite tool you’ve never heard of

Large customers require engineers to build several acronyms

OpenAI isn't the only one having fun

The database translator app

ML model vendor? Or the most interesting company in the world?

Part I of a 2-parter explores the trend of using more UI in software building

Logs, Jerry. Logs!

Demystifying the scary black box, AKA the Terminal

Making deploying your frontend as easy as possible

Runtimes, software libraries, and gRPC

Walking practically through how an engineer builds something

A quick dispatch on what's been going on in the wacky world of machine learning

There are 300+ databases; what do they all do?

The beloved, tragic platform as a service explained

How developers protect sensitive data

Breaking down what ChatGPT and others are doing under the hood

[Technically tries crypto] it's really just online accounting

Overused marketing ploy, or the future of data teams?

How to get from 0 to decently technical

All about APIs: payloads, SDKs, and Swagger

Explaining recent advances in creepy good AI

Explaining the biggest tech IPO ever

What is this? An architecture for ants?

An entire company that helps people use APIs

Keeping your credit cards (and more) safe from the baddies

What experimentation is and why people are yelling about it

It's too hard to understand the basics of how software work, and it's not good.

How engineers engineer their engineering

Integrations, PM requirements for data models, and native apps vs. web apps

They are cache money for improving performance

How an application is sort of like a restaurant

Tips for leveling up your technical chops and being more effective at work

Microservices, object oriented programming, and browser compatibility

And why is everything water related?

All of your questions, forever answered

A deep dive into the databases that power our apps

You're being watched, sort of

Just say what you want

Yet another database! feat. search

What the JAMStack is, tooling, and why use case specific APIs are going to continue to grow in popularity.

Getting your data OUT of your warehouse?

Keeping an eye on your servers and apps

A cross post extravaganza

Standardized testing for your code

We may be running out of names

Call me, text me, if you want to reach me

A basic explainer of what that outage was all about

The talk of the (fish)town

A practical beginner's guide to working with APIs in the wild: what they are and how to use them.

Triggered

Infrastructure for managing your infrastructure

The biggest internet company you've never heard of

A database for the people, and the companies

Help with solving Kafka-esque data problems

The $28B private company nobody understands

Beware of marketers

A beginner's guide to SQL: what it is, why it's important, and how to write it.

Creating robots that will destroy us

Which products, methods, and services data teams use to build modern systems.

Ah shit, it's the auditors again

The post you have all been waiting for

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim 

I cannot for the life of me understand this company's name

Finally, something I actually know about

Because half of the fanboys have never even used the product

Technically begrudgingly tackles Fintech

IT has a cool new name

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim

Don't worry it's not just for porn (not that there's anything wrong with that)

I've got my eyes on you

The post you’ve all been waiting for and struggling to pronounce

More on this hilariously obscure topic

An explanation of Segment's technology and business

AWS is the premier cloud provider - they sell the infrastructure building blocks to build modern apps.

The more acronyms you know...

This was probably a waste of my time

Lots of small mistakes instead of one big one

A Technically book review?!

Where warehouse workers means something else

Machine Learning has advanced - ThE eNd iS NeAr

We talked to Charley about how being technical helps him grow things

Shield the world from your explosions

We talked to Sandy about how being technical helps run M&A

What could this esoteric name possibly mean?

Javascript developers hate this one framework

This table did have relations with that table

We talked to Shomik about how being technical helps at work

Wanna know how everything in the universe works?

A better way to save progress than Powerpoint

Which products, methods, and services developers use to build modern applications.

How the apps you pretend to use at work...work

You speak my language?

What are Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS?

It's like your house, if your house could walk around

What McDonalds and Lyft have in common

[Justin Roiland voice] it's just a bunch of cables 😂

Computers take directions and do them exactly, like investment bankers

Cloud means renting servers instead of buying them, but also other things too

Learn how software and hardware work in an engaging way and impress your boss