Bookmarks tagged “tech”
1112 bookmarks tagged “tech”
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite your code from scratch, and that’s good advice. Time spent rewriting something that already works is time that won’t be spent making our customers working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. And running code k
How to Assess Product Management Skills and Competencies?
Many CEOs and technology leaders believe that product managers need to be among the strongest talent in the company because innovative products provide competitive advantage and drive future growth…
Functional Programming Isn't the Answer – John A De Goes
Functional programming is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Serverless Best Practices - Paul Johnston - Medium
Within the community we’ve been debating the best practices for many years, but there are a few that have been relatively accepted for most of that time. Most serverless practitioners who subscribe…
Serverless is a Doctrine, not a Technology - Paul Johnston - Medium
I have spent the last few years in the serverless community trying to figure out how to help other people understand what it means to “go serverless”. For me in recent months talking about serverless…
Productive Rage - I didn't understand why people struggled with (.NET's) as
Long story short (I know that some readers love a TL;DR), I have almost always worked with async/await in C# projects where it's been async from top-to-bottom and so I've rarely tried to start..
Amazon's Build System
Amazon's Build System. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Notes on Escaping the Build Trap
Last year while thinking about product management in infrastructure I read Cagan’s Inspired, which I thought was a very solid book. I just finished reading Perri’s Escaping the Build Trap, which is similarly excellent, and I’ve written up some notes.
Aurora Serverless: The Good, the Bad and the Scalable - Jeremy Daly
Take a deep dive into the pros and cons of Amazon's new Aurora Serverless service and find out if it's right for you and your company's needs and budget.
Versioning limitations in .NET
This is a blog post I’ve intended to write for a very long time. (Other blog posts in that category include a recipe for tiramisu ice cream, and “knights and allies”.) It’s …
Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once - The GitHub Blog
Today we’re releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…
Opening up our Atlassian Term Sheet
The traditional M&A process is broken and favors large companies. So, we're leveling the playing field by releasing our Term Sheet for anyone to see.
What You Should Never Ask Your Customers - Dave Bailey
Learn the right questions to ask customer about your product, and the questions you should avoid at all costs.
Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3
This is part one of the text of a talk delivered to the Yale Computer Science department on November 28. The rest of the talk will be published tomorrow and Wednesday. I graduated with a B.S. in Co…
What’s Next in Computing?
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial…
From design patterns to category theory
How do you design good abstractions? By using abstractions that already exist.
The State of Agile Software in 2018
Agile Software Development may be mainstream, but much of what's done is faux-agile, and we need to push back.
The Humanizing Work Guide to Splitting User Stories
The definitive guide to splitting features & stories, including the latest versions of Richard Lawrence's popular story splitting flowchart
Z-Order Indexing for Multifaceted Queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 1 | Amazon Web Services
Update from May 29, 2018: Today, we published Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2. TL;DR Using Z-order indexing, you can efficiently run range queries on any combination of fields in your schema. Although Amazon DynamoDB doesn’t natively support Z
Gardener - The Kubernetes Botanist
Today, Kubernetes is the natural choice for running software in the Cloud. More and more developers and corporations are in the process of containerizing their applications, and many of them are adopting Kubernetes for automated deployments of their Cloud Native workloads. There
Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A - chick-fil-atech - Medium
by Brian Chambers, Caleb Hurd, Sean Drucker, Alex Crane, Morgan McEntire, Jamie Roberts, and Laura Jauch (the Chick-fil-A IOT/Edge team) In a recent post, we shared about how we do bare metal…