Things they didn't teach you about Software Engineering
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Things they didn't teach you about Software Engineering
In university, they teach you how to write a 400-line program that solves a problem from A-Z. You have a blank canvas, and you need to show off your knowledge of some fancy algorithm to find a way to generate a maze. In the end, you have a nice solution to a straightforward problem.
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Production Twitter on One Machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast
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