Programming Digest #492: Aging programmer
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Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be completely false, here are some assorted reflections as a 40-year-old programmer that looks back.
A history of ARM: Building the first chip
It was 1983, and Acorn Computers was on top of the world. Unfortunately, trouble was just around the corner.
Mitigating the Noisy Neighbour Multitenancy Problem
In a multi-tenant system, you have multiple different "tenants" (often "customers") who share the same compute resources. This can result in significant cost savings compared with deploying a completely separate instance of your application for every single customer (as well as reducing the operational overhead of managing lots of infrastructure).
6 Best Practices to Manage Pull Request Creation and Feedback
In this article we’ll provide some best practices on how. We’ll first go into detail about how improving PRs can improve a team’s efficiency and outputs and then we’ll take a look at the best practices that have helped DoorDash improve our software development life cycle.
How we reduced our annual server costs by 80%
Zsot Varga shares how Prerender saved $800k by removing their reliance on AWS and building in-house infrastructure to handle traffic and cached data.
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