My favorite musical discoveries of 2024

As a library developer, you may create a popular utility that hundreds of thousands of developers rely on daily, such as lodash or React. Over time, usage patterns might emerge that go beyond your initial design. When this happens, you may need to extend an API by adding parameters or modifying function signatures to fix...

Design tokens are fundamental design decisions represented as data. Andreas Kutschmann explains how they work and how to organize them to balance scalability, maintainability and developer experience. more…

Once we've designed our initial data products, Kiran Prakash finishes his article by leading us through the next steps: identifying common patterns, improving the developer experience, and handling governance. more…

Having got an initial data product, Kiran Prakash leads us through the next steps: covering similar uses cases to generalize the data product, determining which domains the products fit into, and considering service level objectives. more…

A very powerful new coding assistance feature made its way into GitHub Copilot at the end of October. This new “multi-file editing” capability expands the scope of AI assistance from small, localized suggestions to larger implementations across multiple files. Birgitta Böckeler tries out this new capability and...