Learned/Discovered this week: bpftrace, Windows in Docker, Testcontainers & Docker upgrade, Debugging-Tips

November 16, 2025

A short list of things I’ve learned or discovered this week.

bpftrace: DTrace for Linux

I discovered that bpftrace exists for Linux. It is similar to DTrace, where you instrument your system to debug it. That is great news (to me), because DTrace never made really to mainstream Linux. (Even Windows has it). bpftrace compiles things to eBPF programs to do the tracing, so it works on must Linux flavors.

Linux having a tracing tool
Figure 1. Linux having a tracing tool

Found via Brendan Gregg. Its one of the best resources for performance debugging.

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En

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November 13, 2025

Connections Matter or 'When Stateless/Serverlets meets reality'

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Atlassians Forge at 6 years

November 5, 2025
  • Hosted by Atlassian

  • Perfect for custom development apps: They keep running

  • UIKit is actually a nice piece of engineering

Bad

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Use Mill Build Caching in CI-Builds

November 5, 2025

Mill build is still my favorite least-hated build tool. (Here is my outdated introduction to it.) In this blog post I show how to use the Mill build to speed up builds on branches.

I am using Bitbucket pipelines in this post. And I’m a newcomer at that =).

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Yes, Internet Explorer still runs on Win11, with some help

April 29, 2025

Yes, you still can run Internet Explorer, even the all might Internet Explorer 6, on Windows 11! Disclosure: I did work years ago on the mentioned product. I am biased.

Here are the steps:

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