Issue #108
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Posts
A decade ago, Steve Jobs sat down at the D8 conference for an interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. What followed was a masterclass in both company and product management. - #thinkst
Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
Popular modern technology is taken over by expats from a megacorp and made worse in the service of a hyper-specialized (and just plain over-hyped) orchestration platform. That's the world today. - #rougelazer
How to Write Technical Posts (so people will read them)
So I’d like to take some time today and talk about common failure modes in technical writing. If you don’t have a checklist you run through before publishing a post, you’ll probably get a lot of benefit from internalizing this advice. - #reasonablypolymorphic
Data Structures & Algorithms I Actually Used Working at Tech Companies
While I've also never needed to use binary tree inversion, but I have come across everyday use cases of data structures and algorithms when working at Skype/Microsoft, Skyscanner and Uber. - #pragmaticengineer
You've only added two lines - why did that take two days!
It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions:
lines of code = effort
lines of code = value
all lines of code are equal
None of those are true.
#mrlacey
Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack?
Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing access to internal Twitter administrative tools. This post is an attempt to lay out some of the timeline of the attack, and point to clues about who may have been behind it.- #krebsonsecurity
When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
I think telling someone’s manager they’re doing great work is a pretty common practice and it can be really helpful, but it’s easy to forget to do and I wish someone had suggested it to me earlier. So let’s talk about it! - #jvns
Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network. - #blog #cloudflare
Understanding Distributed Consensus with Raft
In this article, we are going to talk about Raft distributed consensus algorithm which is one of the modern and most popular consensus algorithms out there. - #medium
Videos
Camille Fournier on The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems
Zach Tellman - Everything Will Flow