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With a background that winds from photography and media studies to the heart of Silicon Valley, Wesley Yu, Head of Engineering at Metalab, brings a unique perspective to building the digital products that shape our world. Having helped craft the product DNA for household names like Slack and

Scaling modern applications often involves a delicate balancing act between performance, availability, and infrastructure cost, a challenge particularly evident when architecting distributed in-memory data stores like Redis. While Redis is celebrated for its exceptional speed and versatility, its

In the world of application security, threats often evolve faster than defenses. But when OWASP announced a brand-new category for its 2025 Top 10, "Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions," our guest, Vijay Raina, didn't just take note—he took action. In a single weekend, he built a static analysis

Imagine receiving an urgent voice message from your chief executive officer, her tone strained with urgency, instructing you to immediately wire a large sum of money to a new vendor to close a critical, time-sensitive deal. The voice is unmistakably hers, the context is plausible, and the pressure

The development of sophisticated, agent-based AI systems has consistently faced a significant bottleneck: the challenge of creating seamless, scalable, and standardized communication between large language models (LLMs) and the vast ecosystem of third-party applications and backends. For years,

Integrating Apache JMeter with Maven for automated load testing represents a significant advancement in DevOps and Continuous Integration practices, fundamentally transforming how teams approach performance validation within the software development lifecycle. This review will explore the evolution