Programming Digest #496: Faster hardware is a bad first solution to slow software

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Faster hardware is a bad first solution to slow software

There are longer-term costs involved that aren’t immediately visible. If your first solution to any performance problem is spending more money on hardware, you may eventually end up with software that is unnecessarily slow, hard to speed up, and extremely expensive.

How to Build Software like an SRE

I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I describe as living “outside” the application – like, how does it get its configuration? What kinds of instances does it run on, and are those the best kinds to use?

7 Estimation Anti-Patterns

Estimation is a loaded topic in software development. It is where many anti-patterns in a company come together. Developers often suffer from the mechanics that come to play with estimation.

Message delivery and deduplication strategies

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CORS: An Introduction

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Programming Digest #495: When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

Sunday, October 23, 2022

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Programming Digest #494: Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers

Sunday, October 16, 2022

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Programming Digest #493: Facts about State Machines

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Programming Digest #491: How I’m a Productive Programmer With a Memory of a Fruit Fly

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