Programming Digest #492: Aging programmer

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Aging programmer

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

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How we reduced our annual server costs by 80%

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