Archive

• How Complex Systems Fail
• How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
• A Senior Engineer’s Guide to the System Design Interview
• Kubernetes Infrastructure At Medium
• Saving Millions on Logging
• How a single line of code brought down a rocket launch
• Contracts you should never sign
• What we look for in a resume
• 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires
• Things they didn't teach you about Software Engineering
• 8 Hard Truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
• What my life would be without programming
• Abstraction is Expensive
• Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science
• The Distributed Computing Manifesto
• Stop lying to yourself – you will never “fix it later”
• In defense of linked lists
• Four Cornerstones of CPU Performance
• Faster hardware is a bad first solution to slow software
• When life gives you lemons, write better error messages