PinnedBeyoncé rule, A-B-C test and other Software at Scale Lessons from GoogleA Complete EducationJun 4, 20201Jun 4, 20201
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Good Code is like Good Joke — 25 Insights from Cloud Engineering“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not” is why such bottom-up insights and lessons from the field are the…Nov 6, 2023Nov 6, 2023
How to Design Teams, UnbiasedYou ship your org chart. Therefore, to fix shipping, fix your org first. This is often called the “Inverse Conway maneuver”. Or, more…Oct 31, 2023Oct 31, 2023
Refactoring, 2nd Ed — Very Short ReviewIf you have the right ‘why’, you can bear almost any ‘how’.Oct 27, 2023Oct 27, 2023
Homoclite vs. Crazies — A Study in LeadershipThis is a very interesting book on analyzing personalities, especially leadership, with a mirror of “mental illness”. The central thesis…Oct 26, 2023Oct 26, 2023
Five Books — Software ArchitectureArchitecture essentially is what Jeff Bezos calls “Type 1 Decision”. They are typically Zero Day stuff that, once decided, are extremely…Oct 23, 2023Oct 23, 2023
“Building Maintainable Software” — A Very Short ReviewMaintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going. But so much of doing maintenance is tiresome. Brush the damn teeth…Oct 21, 2023Oct 21, 2023
Review: “Going Infinite “— History Fast Forwards 32x these daysI read somewhere that pestilence was the disease of agricultural revolution, cancer of industrial revolution and insanity is the disease of…Oct 4, 2023Oct 4, 2023