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?
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
Did you know that you can manage atleast-once delivery not only on the producer but also on the consumer side?
Article explains what is CORS, popular among web developers CORS, what are the common problems and how to fix them.
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