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

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7 Estimation Anti-Patterns

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

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

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