Kiln Fire is a modern billing and studio management platform built specifically for community pottery studios. Today, more than 200 studios rely on Kiln Fire to manage memberships, classes, billing, retail sales, firing fees, reservations, inventory, and more. We’re a small, focused team that believes in building thoughtful software that genuinely makes our customers’ lives easier. As our platform continues to grow, we’re looking for an experienced developer to help improve reliability, build new functionality, and strengthen the internal tools that support both our customers and our team. About the Role We’re looking for a capable full stack web developer…
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Aug 24, 2026 MinIO End of Life: How to Stay Patched and Audit-Ready with Docker ELS MinIO reached end of life in February 2026. Docker Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) keeps end-of-life software like it patched, compliant, and audit-ready for up to five years, covering versions upstream no longer supports all the way up to entire projects. Read now
Using historical data to confirm performance improvements turns a fast test into evidence the business can defend.Using historical data to confirm performance improvements starts with one fair question. Did the same work become cheaper under comparable conditions? In an illustrative case, a DBA deploys an index at 9:00 AM and watches average reads fall. The release channel fills with check marks.Before deployment, the query averaged 42,000 logical reads across 18,400 executions. Afterward, it averaged 6,100 reads across 11,200 executions. Total reads fell 91 percent, but executions fell 39 percent too.That missing context changes the decision. The team now needs matched…
AI is transforming software engineering. For enterprise Java developers, the key question is whether Java and Jakarta EE are prepared to integrate AI into enterprise applications. The answer is yes.Java and Jakarta EE already support integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI capabilities through existing APIs, libraries, and frameworks. Developers can continue using the enterprise Java ecosystem without waiting for new specifications. Meanwhile, ongoing initiatives are working to standardize AI programming models within Jakarta EE.AI and Software EngineeringAI is changing both how developers build software and what applications can do.AI supports development through code generation, review, testing, documentation, and…
MicroLighter – Master.dev Blog A brand new 2 KB client-side syntax highlighter from Dave. Includes a web component for very easy usage. Maybe these web components have legs, eh? The most interesting part about it is that it doesn’t touch the DOM. It uses the Highlight API to colorize text and TextMate grammars (the same as in VS Code) for the languages. Learn to Work with Web Components Dave Rupert’s course on Web Components will get you entirely up to speed on this powerful native web platform technology. As Dave says, it’s HTML with Superpowers. Personalized Learning Industry-Leading Experts 24…
TL;DR — Key Takeaways Sonatype identified 91 remediated Spring vulnerabilities affecting 209,569 software components, creating a potentially significant update burden for Java environments. AI is accelerating both vulnerability discovery and exploitation, pushing software vendors to address years of technical debt while forcing DevSecOps teams toward continuous patching. Open source dependencies may become the weak link, as smaller volunteer-maintained projects struggle to produce and test fixes at the speed enterprises increasingly require. A report published by Sonatype identifies more than 91 vulnerabilities that have been remediated in the latest update to the open source Spring framework for deploying Java applications mashed…
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience.Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others.The ten job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…
Full, differential and log backups are the three things almost every SQL Server DBA can define, and the three things a surprising number of us get wrong under pressure at two in the morning.I’ve been answering the same question for twenty years. Somebody has a full backup, a pile of differentials, and a few hundred log backups, and they want to know which ones go back in and in what order.I wrote it up in July 2009 with a static diagram. That post still gets traffic every single week, which tells you the question never went away.So this time I’ve…
The term “tokenmaxxing” left the developer lexicon just as quickly as it arrived, and like most viral technology concepts, it means different things depending on who’s using it. In practice, the term is being applied in two ways: maximizing total token consumption as a proxy for AI adoption and effort, or optimizing output per token as a measure of efficiency and skill. These are two very different things, and conflating them is causing organizations to reach for the wrong measurement framework at the wrong time.Why might this be happening? Token usage is a function of query volume and context: how…
Aug 24, 2026 MinIO End of Life: How to Stay Patched and Audit-Ready with Docker ELS Supply-chain attacks have kept escalating while AI writes more of the code you ship. Docker’s latest updates bring more software built from source into your images, keep security coverage running past end of life, carry every guarantee through your customized images, and move policy enforcement onto every developer machine. Read now