As network topologies and protocols evolve over the years, it occasionally becomes apparent that a wholesale re-implementation of a datacenter's routing layer is r …

Priyanka Sharma and Yuri Shkuro demonstrate how distributed tracing works and how to employ it in the development and operations of your applications in the programming language of your choice: Java, Go, Python, Node.js, C#, or C++.

Members of the TODO Groupan open group of companies who collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run successful and effective open source projects and programsdiscuss why they started open source offices in their respective companies (Twitter, Netflix, Box, Google, Microsoft, and SanDisk) and share the lessons they learned along the way.

Working for the government presents two major hurdles in open source development: getting your hands on open source developed libraries and finding ways to contribute to open source development in the workplace. Kathy Lee and Morgan Senkal discuss these challenges and offer possible solutions.

DistributedLog is a high-performance replicated log service built on top of Apache BookKeeper that is the foundation of publish-subscribe at Twitter, serving traffic from transactional databases to real-time data analytic pipelines. Sijie Guo offers an overview of DistributedLog, detailing the technical decisions and challenges behind its creation and how it is used at Twitter.

Elijah Manor brings backend or junior devs up to speed on CSS by explaining foundational concepts, such as the box model, specificity, position, cascading, and sizing, and introducing newer concepts, including Flexbox, Sass, BEM, Autoprefixer, and CSS modules. You'll walk away with a set of tips and techniques that make CSS easier to organize, understand, and maintain.