#505 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
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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Is Windows a joke or are you? 🧢
I'm probably not the only one to make jokes about Windows and its vulnerabilities. Indeed, Microsoft sells products to the vast majority of individuals, but organizations as well. A large range of businesses rely on Active Directories and other Microsoft technologies for their daily activities.
Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved. I’ll help you understand why this is an important thing to be aware of and how to use it to help your career.
Erasure Coding versus Tail Latency
There are zero FEC puns in this post, against my better judgement.
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20 rules of thumb for writing better software.
No matter what kind of software you’re developing, you most definitely leverage logging to some extent, probably every single day.
Production Twitter on One Machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast
In this post I’ll attempt the fun stunt of designing a system that could serve the full production load of Twitter with most of the features intact on a single (very powerful) machine.
7 Tips for Building a Good Web API (sponsor)
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Pictures of a Working Garbage Collector
This post shows a demo of a fast shell in C++, with a working garbage collector.
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