Great walkthrough of Git terms that people find (and are!) comfusing. Most of the time I don’t need to use the majority of these, but it helps to have at least seen explanationions before.
Great walkthrough of Git terms that people find (and are!) comfusing. Most of the time I don’t need to use the majority of these, but it helps to have at least seen explanationions before.
I’ve definitely had this happen to me a few times 😂: open.substack.com/pub/workc…
Details of a new test vectoriser from Google. If I was still in this business I would definitely be trying this out already!
I’m a bit hesitant given that it seems to me that Gmail’s filtering has significantly deteriorated over the last year or so, and that’s the period they have used this. Their benchmarks show improvements but internal benchmarking is hard.
Interesting anti FaaS post.
Interesting story on digging into a performance issue that goes super deep.
Interesting analysis on typing use by Python core devs - the methodology is a bit weak (which the author admits) but interesting nonetheless.
Interesting story about learning from mistakes. However, if one person can make a $500M mistake, you have a process problem, not a person one.
Just say ‘no’. It’s harder than it sounds, but it is indeed often the best choice.
(I think the Google-killing-products point is misplaced - that’s not saying “no”, it’s saying “yes” and regretting it later).
Interesting long post on the backstory behind Mirai.
Amusing in-office auto-replies (as opposed to OoO).
Interesting intro to Sentry’s work to have multiple regions. I worked on similar projects a couple of times, and it’s much more complex than you might first think.
(If you are small, just host everything in Germany).
Got around to watching the Humane Pin intro and understand why people have panned it so much. Hard to understand how this could get released - it would never have been approved anywhere I’ve worked. (The marketing, not the device).
I feel so seen 😂
An excellent update to Spolsky’s famous Unicode primer.
Good post on opting off the career ladder. Closely reflects the journey I recently went through. I think more people need to do this, but also, it’s really hard/scary.
Truly excellent write up of handling database migratons. The only thing I would add is that you want to ensure that moving off dual-write gets priority in your backlog - too often I’ve seen the urgency drop at that point and code stuck with dual writing for ages. via
This post doesn’t really do what is claims: explaining scaling with minimal engineers but it’s an interesting walkthrough of simple techniques to build a service like (OG) Instagram.
Not sure if I saw this post on Instagram’s approach to IDs & sharding back at the time.
We originally used Flickr’s technique that the Instagram post also links to. We eventually scaled it out a bit differently, reserving some of the bits for the shard ID (like Instagram). We also had slightly different requirements (e.g. 64 bits was a hard max, because we had to use the IDs with SphinxSearch).
It’s such a weird quirk of history that tlds belong to countries but are used in other ways. It is cool that, other than Italy, these are generally very small places that can get money (for a while at least) from it. Note that there’s a whole backstory on .io that isn’t mentioned here.
I also wonder what will happen with .nz when we finally change to Aotearoa.
Detailed post on how platform teams get stuff done - particularly interesting at the moment since I’ve recently moved from a platform consumer to platform provider.