This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/kpis-are-destroying-it-teams-how-to-actually-measure-developer-performance.
Discover why traditional KPIs fail IT teams and learn how to measure developer performance effectively while boosting team health and productivity.
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Traditional KPIs like ticket counts or lines of code harm developer productivity. Focus on measuring Cycle Time (how quickly tasks are delivered) and Story Points (task complexity) instead. Use metrics to support, not punish, teams. Consider context, team health, and collaboration to truly boost efficiency and morale.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-choose-a-dependency-build-vs-buy-risk-management-and-more.
In this post, I'd like to describe my approach when choosing a dependency. I'll first define what I mean by dependency in the context of this post.
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A dependency is literally something your software depends on: infrastructure such as a filesystem or a database, network, etc. In this post, I'd like to narrow the scope to a software dependency that you need to compile/run, *i.e., a library. I'll first define what I mean by dependency in the context of this post. Then, I'll list a grid of several criteria to analyze possible dependencies.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-real-fix-for-react-native-pnpm-hoist-everything.
Learn why React Native projects break under pnpm’s default linking, and why switching to node-linker=hoisted is the simplest, most reliable fix in monorepos.
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Learn why React Native projects break under pnpm’s default linking, and why switching to node-linker=hoisted is the simplest, most reliable fix in monorepos.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-painful-joy-of-refusing-documentation.
From AI hallucinations to debugging disasters, this essay explores the reasons why developers should stop fumbling around and start reading the docs.
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From AI hallucinations to debugging disasters, this essay explores the reasons why developers should stop fumbling around and start reading the docs.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/scaling-api-integrations-in-symfony-fire-and-forget-factories-auditing-and-streams.
We’re going to architect four production-ready, non-trivial patterns using Symfony 7.x and PHP 8.x.
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We’re going to architect four production-ready, non-trivial patterns using Symfony 7.x and PHP 8.x.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-use-vector-search-to-build-a-movie-recommendation-app.
Learn how to build a semantic movie recommendation app using ScyllaDB’s vector search to find films by meaning, not just keywords.
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ScyllaDB’s new Vector Search lets developers build semantic search apps that understand meaning, not just text. This tutorial shows how to create a movie recommendation app using Sentence Transformers, Python, and Streamlit. It covers schema design, vector indexing, and ANN-based querying for fast, intelligent recommendations.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/it-works-on-my-machine-isnt-an-excusetest-your-readme-like-a-user.
The README says to download from this link. Huh, I'm not sure how to unarchive .tar.xz files - guess I'll search for that.
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The README says to download from this link. Huh, I'm not sure how to unarchive .tar.xz files - guess I'll search for that.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/deploying-mobilenetv3-on-nxp-imx8mp-a-complete-edge-ai-workflow-for-handwritten-digit-recognition.
This article details how to port and run the MobileNetV3 model on the NXP i.MX8MP platform to achieve the function of handwritten digit recognition.
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This article details how to port and run the MobileNetV3 model on the NXP i.MX8MP platform to achieve the function of handwritten digit recognition. From dataset import, model training and validation to TensorFlow Lite quantization and deployment, it fully demonstrates the usage process of eIQ Portal tool.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/npms-new-token-limits-wont-stop-the-attacks-that-actually-happen.
npm's October 2025 security overhaul introduces 90-day token limits and kills classic tokens. But the biggest supply chain attacks—from XZ Utils to the...
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npm's new token lifetime limits (90-day max, 7-day default) and mandatory WebAuthn are good security hygiene, but they don't address how attacks actually happen. The September 2025 breach that compromised 18 packages with 2.6B weekly downloads succeeded via phishing—the attacker had full account access and could generate tokens at will. The XZ Utils backdoor involved three years of social engineering to gain maintainer trust. Token rotation doesn't stop account takeovers, malicious insiders, or the lack of code review. npm is treating the symptom (token exposure) rather than the disease (anyone can publish anything instantly).

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-automatic-checking-of-cfgs-how-it-works.
It ensures that the cfg settings are consistent between what is intended and what is used, helping to catch potential bugs or errors early in development
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This can help with verifying that the crate is correctly handling conditional compilation for different target platforms or features. It ensures that the cfg settings are consistent between what is intended and what is used, helping to catch potential bugs or errors early in the development process.

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It is an explicit security design goal of the Go toolchain that neither fetching nor building code will let that code execute, even if it is untrusted.
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All together this means it’s possible to build rich, complex applications with just a handful of dependencies. No matter how good the tooling is, it can’t eliminate the risk involved in reusing code, so the strongest mitigation will always be a small dependency tree.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-hidden-ledger-of-code-tracking-the-carbon-debt-inside-our-software.

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As software scales, so does the energy it consumes and the emissions it generates. This growing footprint forms what many engineers now call carbon debt. Carbon debt is the accumulation of energy waste caused by inefficient architecture, redundant compute, or neglected cleanup.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-can-governments-pay-open-source-maintainers.
Top tips for making it easier for maintainers to get paid.
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What difficulties do Governments and large organisations have when funding Open Source maintainers.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-good-dry-intentions.
Learn how good intentions can lead to spaghetti dry code, over abstraction and over engineered systems.
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Over-engineering is making software/system design more complex than necessary. Functionalities should only be implemented when you need them, not on the possibility you will need them.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/5-ways-async-work-builds-a-more-flexible-and-inclusive-workplace.
Return-to-office rates have steadied, yet flexibility still ranks in the top three reasons people switch jobs.
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Return-to-office rates have steadied, yet flexibility still ranks in the top three reasons people switch jobs.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/json-was-killing-our-redis-memory-switching-serialization-made-it-7-smaller.
Cut Redis memory usage by 7× by ditching JSON for Pydantic models. Learn how a custom binary format reduced storage, costs, and overhead at scale.
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Redis was running a large production service with about **10 million monthly active users**. Every record in Redis was a **JSON-serialized Pydantic model** It looked clean and convenient – until it started to hurt. At scale, JSON stops being a harmless convenience and becomes a silent tax on memory.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/inside-a-34-petabyte-migration-the-true-cost-of-moving-a-digital-mountain.
The true cost of a large-scale data migration isn’t in the storage, it’s in the movement.
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The true cost of a large-scale data migration isn’t in the storage, it’s in the movement. Every file has history, metadata, and risk. Every storage platform has bottlenecks. Every misstep can cost you time, money, and trust.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/blast-api-shutdown-the-best-alternatives-for-developers.
Blast API ends operations in Oct 2025. Explore the best developer alternatives like NOWNodes and Alchemy for secure, scalable RPC migration.
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Blast API is shutting down in October 2025 following Alchemy’s acquisition. Developers must migrate fast to keep their dApps running. NOWNodes offers multi-chain scalability with no RPS limits, while Alchemy provides deep Ethereum integration. Pick based on your ecosystem focus and scaling needs.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-myth-of-single-threaded-javascript-inside-the-languages-hidden-concurrency-engine.
Explore the concurrency model of modern JavaScript, including the event loop, async/await, and more.
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Modern JavaScript offers a rich (although muddled) concurrency landscape. From the event loop and. async/await to Web Workers, async iterators, and Shared.ArrayBuffers. Understanding how these layers of concurrency interact is essential for building responsive UIs, scalable backends, and reliable serverless functions.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-kube-prometheus-stack-isnt-enough-for-kubernetes-observability.
Monitoring tells you what broke; observability explains why.
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Kube-prometheus-stack bundles Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring Kubernetes workloads. On the surface, it looks like the answer to all your monitoring needs. But monitoring is not observability, and if you confuse the two, you will hit a wall.