Archive - Technically

ELI5: The CrowdStrike Outage

What actually happened from a technical perspective

Jul 22 •

What are integrations, and how do they work?

All about how apps talk to one another

Jul 9 •

June 2024

The Details: Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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

Jun 20 •

May 2024

The Excel User's Guide to Databases: Databases and APIs

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

May 30 •

What happens when an app goes down? All about outages

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

May 13 •

April 2024

Comparing available LLMs for non-technical users

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

Apr 22 •

The Excel User's Guide to Databases: Migrations

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

Apr 8 •

March 2024

What Does Sentry do?

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

Mar 18 •

It was never about LLM performance

Beware the benchmark.

Mar 6 •

Best of Technically 2023

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

Mar 6 •

The Excel User's Guide to Databases: Schemas

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

Mar 6 •

What does Snyk do?

Helping everyone's code stay vulnerability free

Mar 6 •

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