Notes by Topic: software

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• Web Compression 101

• Let 1000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots

• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster

• Scalability! But at what COST?

• Taco Bell Programming

• The Tail at Scale

• Performance Matters

• Why Specs Matter

• Logs vs Structured Events

• ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache

• Defect Attractors

• Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns

• Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of Illumos

• Oral Tradition in Software Engineering: Passing the Craft Along Generations

• Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide

• Leadership Without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers

• Delivering on Something That Doesn’t Exist

• Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)

• Running in Circles

• Patterns are not building blocks.

• How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner

• Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter

• A Taxonomy of Tech Debt

• Service Workers: An Introduction

• Deploying Often Is a Very Good Idea

• Choose Boring Technology

• The Push Train

• Google SRE Book

• You Can't Have a Rollback Button

• Puppet (Configuration Management)

• HTTP/2

• HSTS

• Visualizing System Latency

• What I learned doing 250 interviews at Google

• Computer Networks, 5th Edition

• What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True

• Database normalization

• How I Met Your Girlfriend