Before
We track 23 posts about Before from 20 engineering blogs. Most active: SitePoint, Freek Van der Herten, T.J. Maher. Latest post: Oct 9, 2026.
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Designing Apps for AI Agent Phones: 6 Checks Developers Should Make Before Granting Access (opens on the source site)
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A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective (opens on the source site)
This analysis compares the 2024 and 2025 Developer Survey data across three connected stories: the evolution of AI, humans at work, and demographics and community.
Seven Architectural Readiness Checks Before Production Launch (opens on the source site)
Auth0 ·
Ensure your identity pipeline is production-ready, eliminate onboarding friction, and scale your application smoothly with Auth0 self-service plans.
Sizing Your IIoT Table Before You Deploy (opens on the source site)
A 20-byte sensor reading costs 95.6 on disk. Measure bytes per row, project 631 billion rows, and test your ingest ceiling before the schema review.
Catching poor LLM performance and accuracy before deployment (opens on the source site)
Red Hat ·
vLLM is the leading open source inference and serving engine for LLMs. Averaging 64 commits a day with bi-weekly releases, the open source project goes through a significant amount of code changes rapidly. Red Hat AI Inference offers an integrated inference platform powered by vLLM, llm-d and vLLM's llm-compressor. The post Catching poor LLM performance and accuracy before deployment appeared first on Red Hat Developer.
In Meetings, Raise Hands Before Reading (opens on the source site)
I spent five and a half years at AWS before moving (back) to Microsoft, where I work today. At Amazon, many meetings began with silent reading. Instead of presenting a document, the author gave everyone time to read it before the discussion started. There was a small facilitation trick that made this work surprisingly well: when reading began, everyone raised a hand. When someone finished, they lowered it. The meeting started with all hands up and counted down to zero. At Microsoft, I found the inverse practice: everyone began with their hands down and raised one when they finished. At the…
Laravel Vet: Review Composer Code Before It Installs (opens on the source site)
Laravel ·
Laravel Vet is a new first-party Composer plugin that shows you the code in every dependency update and records the packages you trust in vet.json. The post Laravel Vet: Review Composer Code Before It Installs appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.
Client success starts before kickoff (opens on the source site)
Client success starts before kickoff, in how well we understand the problem, carry context forward, and set the right team up to deliver.
Eloquent Performance and Database Design: Evidence Before Eager Loading (opens on the source site)
A deep dive into Eloquent performance, from detecting N+1 queries to choosing aggregates, indexes, query plans, pagination, chunking, and transaction boundaries for a growing team dashboard. Read more
Before You Write Production Code: A Pre-Development Infrastructure Checklist for Web Projects (opens on the source site)
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We Cut Cloud Waste Before Touching Cluster Sizes: Lessons from Running a Data Platform (opens on the source site)
How orphaned BigQuery storage, Delta retention, DMS right-sizing, and Databricks System Tables became our biggest cloud cost wins.The biggest cloud cost optimization we made wasn’t shrinking clusters.It was deleting data we’d forgotten we were paying for.Like most teams, our first instinct was to tune infrastructure first. Instead, we discovered a treasure trove of hidden costs: orphaned BigQuery datasets, 90-day Delta retention, 24-hour jobs no one monitored, and DMS infrastructure that no longer matched business needs.We stopped treating cloud bills as a finance problem and started treating…
4 must-ask questions before you delegate to your AI agent (opens on the source site)
Twilio ·
Before you automate a task with AI, run it through these questions. Because customers draw the line when it comes to money, health, and signatures.
Reading Table Bloat Before It Reads You (opens on the source site)
PostgreSQL table bloat: detect it before it kills performance. Measure heap and index density, set autovacuum thresholds, and alert on dead tuple ratios and vacuum lag.
Build Hints That Fail Before the Build Server (opens on the source site)
Codename One now exposes 87 common build hints as Java annotations, giving the compiler enough information to reject misspelled names, wrong types, and unsupported values before a build reaches the server.
How Developers Can Test Their Feature Branch Against Various Playwright Configurations Before Creating a Merge Request in GitLab CI/CD (opens on the source site)
Developers need the option to test out their feature branch before merging it into main. In the last section, we set up a GitLab CI/CD Pipeline in our bun-create-playwright project to check every GitLab Merge Request. Now, we will be giving developers option to create a new pipeline where they can choose:Which feature branch to test against.Which test suite to execute (LoginPage tests? Secure Area? Or all of them?)Which Playwright browser to use: Chromium, Firefox, WebKit, or all.All these features can be set up using our .gitlab-ci.yaml file!Go to to bun-create-playwright, view the Pipelines…
How Developers Can Test Their Feature Branch Against Various Playwright Configurations Before Creating a Merge Request in GitLab CI/CD (opens on the source site)
Developers need the option to test out their feature branch before merging it into main. In the last section, we set up a GitLab CI/CD Pipeline in our bun-create-playwright project to check every GitLab Merge Request. Now, we will be giving developers option to create a new pipeline where they can choose: Which feature branch to test against. Which test suite to execute (LoginPage tests? Secure Area? Or all of them?) Which Playwright browser to use: Chromium, Firefox, WebKit, or all. All these features can be set up using our .gitlab-ci.yaml file! Go to to bun-create-playwright, view the…
Your coding agent spends 26,000 tokens before it reads your prompt: Comparing MCP and CLI (opens on the source site)
PubNub: ·
AI adoption for coding has reached an all-time high, but there's a bottleneck nobody budgeted for. Explore what MCP servers, CLIs, and skill files actually cost you before an agent does any work, and a benchmarking measure using tooling from Blocks.ai (powered by PubNub).
How to evaluate LLMs before production (opens on the source site)
These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning. The post How to evaluate LLMs before production appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Modular Monoliths: Creating Real Boundaries Before Reaching for Microservices (opens on the source site)
A deep dive into modular monoliths, from module APIs and database ownership to cross-module communication, architecture tests, incremental migration, and the signals that justify microservices. Read more
AI Model Risk Intelligence Know Which Models You Can Trust Before You Deploy (opens on the source site)
Snyk ·
AI model risk depends on how a model is deployed. Learn how Evo combines adversarial testing, attack impact, and deployment context to help teams compare models and enforce policy.
Why You Should Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector (opens on the source site)
Optimising your memory allocations in Java could make far more difference than your choice of Garbage Collector and may even change which is the best garbage collector. In this post I look at a simple event to response latency benchmark, MarketDataSnapshot to NewOrderSingle at 50K/s for 30 minutes using JLBH to test Chronicle-FIX. The goal is to compare a system which is doing redundant work (in this case logging each message using SLF4J), compared with not logging (Chronicle-FIX records every message internally using Chronicle Queue) and how this changes the choice of Garbage Collector For…
Why You Should Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector (opens on the source site)
Optimising your memory allocations in Java could make far more difference than your choice of Garbage Collector and may even change which is the best garbage collector. In this post I look at a simple event to response latency benchmark, MarketDataSnapshot to NewOrderSingle at 50K/s for 30 minutes using JLBH to test Chronicle-FIX. The goal is to compare a system which is doing redundant work (in this case logging each message using SLF4J), compared with not logging (Chronicle-FIX records every message internally using Chronicle Queue) and how this changes the choice of Garbage Collector For…
Git Unstage Before First Commit (opens on the source site)
Here's how to unstage files before the first commit. You've created a new repo. It's clean and fresh, then you go for the first commit. You add your current directory, then look at your status... A deflated sigh. So soon, too soon, you have sullied your pristine repo by preparing to commit a bunch of generated files. Of course, you don't want these in your repo. You only want source code. Well, you try the usually trick to start the file staging over: git restore --staged . It doesn't work. You ask for help and get this alternate: git rm --cached -r . It works! Yay! Then you learn of this…
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