Tech Feed - December 23, 2025
Articles and podcasts from the software engineering world.
SE Radio
SE Radio 700: Mojtaba Sarooghi on Waiting Rooms for High-Traffic Events
Mojtaba Sarooghi, a Distinguished Product Architect at Queue-it, speaks with host Jeremy Jung about virtual waiting rooms for high-traffic events such as concerts and limited-quantity product releases. They explore using a virtual queue to prevent overloading systems, how most traffic is from bots, ...
Software Engineering Daily
Node.js in 2026 with Rafael Gonzaga
Here is a 250-word summary of the key points from the podcast episode "Node.js in 2026 with Rafael Gonzaga":
Rafael Gonzaga is a Principal Open Source Engineer at NodeSource and a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee. He has spent years working on the performance and security of Node.js, helping shape the direction of the runtime.
The discussion covers several key areas:
Performance Optimizations: Gonzaga discusses the challenge of benchmarking Node.js performance, noting it can take 84 hours to run the full suite. He shares examples of optimizations they've explored, like improving handling of empty HTTP requests, which doubled throughput in testing.
Balancing Stability and Innovation: Gonzaga explains the difficulty in making breaking changes to Node.js core, as it risks disrupting the vast ecosystem. Features are often released behind opt-in flags first to avoid mass breakages.
Contributing to Node.js: Gonzaga encourages developers to get involved in contributing to Node.js, noting it has broadened his own career and skillset. He runs live streams to help guide first-time contributors through the process.
Practical Advice: For developers building Node.js apps, Gonzaga recommends using high-performance libraries like Fastify and Pino.js, and carefully profiling code to leverage V8 optimizations.
Overall, the discussion provides a window into the engineering challenges and priorities for one of the world's most widely-used runtimes. Gonzaga's insights highlight the delicate balance required to keep Node.js fast, secure, and stable as it continues to evolve.
Dev Interrupted
The one where we vibe code holiday cards | Season 5 Finale
As the year draws to a close, the Dev Interrupted team reflects on a transformative year in engineering spanning the rise of RAG and vector databases to the emergence of agentic workflows. For the first time, we’re taking the conversation out of the booth and into the IDE. Head over to the Dev Inter...
Tech Brew Ride Home
Drone Ban
I hope you weren’t expecting Santa to leave a drone under the tree this week. Europe is forcing Apple to pair nicely with others. More signs of the AI fueled debt explosion. And in the year of the stablecoin, the rise of stablecoin-based banks. U.S. Bans New China-Made Drones, Sparking Outrage Among...