Top Hacker News Books of All Time
Top books of all time found in comments on Hacker News.
Board
Neat – Supercharge your GitHub workflow
GitHub notifications on your macOS desktop. Streamline your code review and ship with ease. Alternative to Slack GitHub, DevHub, Octobox, and Notifier.
Cloudflare Queues: globally distributed queues without the egress fees
Cloudflare Queues is a message queuing service that allows applications to reliably send and receive messages using Cloudflare Workers
cpressey/Facts-about-State-Machines: I hold the opinion that state machines are underrated
I hold the opinion that state machines are underrated - cpressey/Facts-about-State-Machines: I hold the opinion that state machines are underrated
New Relic Opens Product Innovation Center in Hyderabad, India
Notes on Roadtrips by The Browser Company
And what they may or may not have to teach us about creativity, ingenuity, and building something entirely new.
Richard Feynman and Narrative
Perceptual Hashing
Is Ethereum a Dumb Pipe?
Commoditized protocols (especially decentralized ones) often create value but have a different entity capture most of it. See examples of email (Gmail) or git (GitHub). Who captures the value? Scaling layers? On-ramps/off-ramps? Regulated exchanges?
Telcos vs. the internet, SaaS vs. cloud providers – when can platform-owners compete with applications on their platforms? When are platform providers subject to only becoming dumb pipes that move bits instead of offering high-level services?
thinking from the bottleneck perspective, any startup can start from bottleneck in the dev loop cycles and then expand it from there, given they have a broad enough vision.
Free Compute and Replit
I don't think these are the most compelling business models, but I think a company that figures out how to give away free compute in exchange for demand has a chance of being a generational company in the next cycle. Even with a slowdown in Moore's law, skate where the puck is going.
Risk vs. Uncertainty
The Middle Squeeze
Enterprise Software Investing Playbook
An Encyclopedia of lessons from the best research materials, legends, and personal experiences.
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Report: Databricks vs Snowflake | A Cloud Data Infrastructure Deep Dive
Value Accrual in the Crypto Infra Stack
Does value accrue at the protocol layer or the application layer? Value creation is not the same as value capture. The prevailing thesis has been one of Fat Protocols (2016) / Thin Applications (2020).
Goes both ways.
Why Are Enterprises So Slow?
tl;dr In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in place to make change come about. Hav…
DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022
This article summarizes how we see the "cloud computing and DevOps" space in 2022, which focuses on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, the realization of patterns in technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.
The case for a $2 trillion addressable public cloud market
The global public cloud market (hyperscaler IaaS and PaaS) reached $157 billion in 2021, according to our recently released Cloud Computing Market Report 2021–2026. The cloud market is dominated by
Datalog in Javascript
Relational Database, on the client.
Not 3 pillars but a single whole to help customers solve issues faster
Not 3 pillars but a single whole to help customers solve issues faster
Introducing Web3 Subscriptions — Mirror Development
Today, Mirror is excited to announce the launch of web3 subscriptions. This new feature allows readers to subscribe to any Mirror publication with their wallets and receive email notifications when new content is posted. For creators, web3 subscriptions open the door to building a wallet-based community that can be used across web3.
Finance is Narrative Not Numbers
The Subtle Art of Manipulating CFOs
The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking
hen one reaches 80, one is considered to be ripe and ready for picking. Picking usually consists of the pickers asking the pickee to reflect back on the wisdom he has gained over his lifetime. This request is based on the false assumption that wisdom increases with age. The pickee is then expected to share […]
Why Kubernetes is Not Enough, Even If you Wished it Was?
Why do I need this or that tool if I'm already using Kubernetes? To answer that question we start with the Orchestration First Approach.
The Gartner Hype Cycle is … hype. Don’t use it as an excuse. – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Advocates of failed technologies grasp at the Gartner Hype Cycle because it tells them their success is inevitable.
Jason Fried on Why He Doesn't Do Planning or Politics at Work
The Basecamp and HEY cofounder discusses the power of short-term thinking, his framework for startup longevity, and the key thing he looks for when hiring remote.
So You Want To Build An Observability Tool...
I’ve said this before, but I’m saying it again: observability is not a synonym for monitoring, and there are no three pillars. The pillars are bullshit. Briefly: monitoring is how you manage your known-unknowns,...
On the journey of tough problems
Principles of Effective Research | Michael Nielsen