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I got an email from a friend this week in response to my column about coding domains that no developer understands. He wrote: Bro, if you don’t understand Kubernetes, it just means your claim to have ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

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