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A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.

David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.

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In tech, switching jobs almost always comes with either a financial or a title upside. However, it doesn’t always come with both. Switching for higher compensation can result in a “lower” title, like going from Senior Software Engineer to SWE 2 or VP Engineering to Senior Engineering Manager. This

Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick tick tick. At some point that timer will go off, at which point someone will rush up to you demanding an engineering strategy. It won’t be clear what they mean, but they will want it, really, really badly. If we just had an engineering strategy, their eyes will implore you, things would be okay. For a long time, those imploring eyes haunted me, because I simply didn’t know what to give them: what is an engineering strategy?

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Conflict Free Replicated Data types (CRDTs) can be tricky. You may spend months reading papers and implementing different algorithms before they finally click and become simple. That or they'll seem simple out of the gate and you'll be missing a bunch…

This guide shows you how to write, structure, visualize and manage software architecture documentation in a lean way using appropriate documentation tools.

A curated list of software and architecture related design patterns. - DovAmir/awesome-design-patterns: A curated list of software and architecture related design patterns.

These methods have helped me enormously—and can save you much heartache and anxiety

Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]

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The Problem Writing useful features for your users is key to a successful product.  It makes sense then that you should maximize your time w...

A team of senior software developers from Stratoflow shares 20 useful tips on how to be a good developer. See our checklist!

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It has been a while since I’ve been working as SRE/Platform/Cloud Engineer, and lately and I realize I’ve been repeating some questions to developers that I rarely get an answer for straight away. These are not meant to make anyone’s life harder, au contraire, the whole pourpose of having a solid answer to this list of questions, is to make everyone less worried about the probabilty of some high stakes, overnight failure or a data handling missuse that could potentially cause big losses, and of course a lot of unnecessary stress.

We get a lot more done in way less time at Tremendous. Mostly because of our high-documentation, low-meeting work culture. We'll tell you exactly what that means.

Ben Nadel discusses one of the lessons learned from 10 years of CodePen: solve only problem at a time - a message worth amplifying.

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Some tactical and strategic tips for writing effectively as a software developer.

This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated....

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Discover 10 EKS security tactics to protect your Kubernetes clusters and tighten your application security.

Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, …

When it comes to error handling, it truly is a team sport

Shreyas Doshi’s Twitter thread ‘Destined to Fail’ introduced the idea of Customer Problems Stack Ranks — a new way to think about contextualizing the relative priority of the problem a product aims to solve.