You can’t practice it beforehand
"let's just..." scenarios
A programmer had a problem. "I'll solve it with threads!". has Now problems. two he
Rendering trillions of UUIDs in a browser because why not
Timezone UIs suck, generally
The problem is not software, it’s people
CPUs were dying, the bug was temporarily un-fixable, and they had no viable path forward
What occurs between typing a URL in your browser and the moment a webpage is displayed
Learning 42 programming languages
Population 382 and some notable stick bugs and weirdest timezone
That's Just a Layer of Indirection
zstandard and passive session system improvements
If you would build an in-memory cache, how would you do it?
But it's even harder to write code for humans
Use interactive identification protocols instead
There are not many modern books about being good senior engineer
Code reviews, releases, documentation
And how it stores data of different types
Reduce a massive pile of data into a small dataset
Continuous reinvention highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation