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Don't be fooled by serverless
Cloud aficionados love pinning the true promise of the cloud on serverless functions and services. Not getting the savings you thought you would with the cloud? It's because you didn't go serverless. Frustrated with the complexity of the cloud? Serverless! Performance questions?
What engineering can teach (and learn from) us
This is part three of the crossover project. Part one is here and part two is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I met William at Deconstruct 2019.1 We were walking back from the pre-party—too loud for my comfort level—and I took the chance to inter
We Are Not Special
This is part two of the crossover project. Part one is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. No one thinks about moving the starting or ending point of the bridge midway through construction. -Justin Cave I had to move a bridge.
Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? - High Scalability -
Robert Scoble wrote a fascinating case study, MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft, where he reports MySpace insiders blame the Microsoft stack on why they lost the great social network race to Facebook. Does anyone know if this is t
The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus – Baldur Bjarnason
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month
The 1 Hour per Year Bug (But Only in Pacific Time!)
:::note This article was updated in response to some helpful comments on Hacker News. I originally incorrectly formatted the Pacific Time Zone daylight saving times relative to the Eastern Time Zone!…
Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) - Stack Overflow
How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
I’ve won many marketing video contest promotions over the past decade using my proven techniques and tactics. This particular haul, however, was the first where I can give at least partial credit to the application of code and AI tools.
Nintendo completely sat out the video game graphics wars. It’s winning anyway. - Sherwood News
What Nintendo lacks in fancy pixels, it makes up for in dopamine. That’s why it basically prints money.
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) – charity.wtf
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dir…
AI Act is Here
The European Union enabled the Artificial Intelligence Act, the first-ever legal framework on AI, addressing its risks and positioning Europe as a leader in AI legislation. This article reviews the AI Act, the different risk categories, and how (and when) it will impact developme
The Curse of Knowledge - Ness Labs
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have enough background to understand.
This developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved? - Stack Overflow
Categories of leadership on technical teams | benkuhn.net
overall direction • people management • project management • technical leadership • example divisions of labor
Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer
What exists in the space between riffing and ripping
Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues | Brightball
Their creator has disavowed them. The measure and definition is different for every team that uses it. They sow confusion, create conflict, unreliable timelines, are easily gamed, demotivate and degrade the performance of your team.
The real 10x developer makes their whole team better - Stack Overflow
