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2017-10-05 12:13 am

Link blog: complexity, code, programming, software

The Coming Software Apocalypse – The Atlantic
A couple of “make everything better” approaches: visual modelling, and mathematical verifiability.
(tags: code software complexity programming)

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2016-08-20 12:13 am

Link blog: software, code, programming, business

Tech debt and makers vs menders
Notes on how to get good at maintenance, and the transition from scrambling to stability.
(tags: programming business software technical-debt code)

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2014-05-05 12:13 am

Link blog: programming, latency, code, funny

Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality
Make investments in reducing latency rather than just comparing hours spent with value gained.
(tags: programming management latency speed)
Programming Sucks
“Websites that are glorified shopping carts with maybe three dynamic pages are maintained by teams of people around the clock, because the truth is everything is breaking all the time, everywhere, for everyone. Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses.”
(tags: programming code internet funny)

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2014-05-04 12:13 am

Link blog: programming, latency, code, funny

Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality
Make investments in reducing latency rather than just comparing hours spent with value gained.
(tags: programming management latency speed)
Programming Sucks
“Websites that are glorified shopping carts with maybe three dynamic pages are maintained by teams of people around the clock, because the truth is everything is breaking all the time, everywhere, for everyone. Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses.”
(tags: programming code internet funny)

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