Engineering

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/scaling-up-vs-scaling-out-hidden-costs.html blog post about scale up and scale out, and hidden costs introduced by administration licensing costs for proprietary software. “Last monday we upgraded our core database server after a power outage knocked the site offline. I haven’t touched this machine since 2005 so it was a major undertaking to do it last minute. We upgraded from a machine with 64 GB of ram and 8 CPUs to a HP ProLiant DL785 with 512 GB of ram and 32 CPUs …” ...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/scaling-up-vs-scaling-out-hidden-costs.html blog post about scale up and scale out, and hidden costs introduced by administration licensing costs for proprietary software. “Last monday we upgraded our core database server after a power outage knocked the site offline. I haven’t touched this machine since 2005 so it was a major undertaking to do it last minute. We upgraded from a machine with 64 GB of ram and 8 CPUs to a HP ProLiant DL785 with 512 GB of ram and 32 CPUs …” ...

http://labs.spotify.com/2013/02/25/in-praise-of-boring-technology/ More often than not, the right tool for the job is piece of software that has been around for some time, with proven success. One example would be writing a backend service in Java or Python instead of Go or Node.JS. Another example would be storing data in MySQL or PostgreSQL instead of MongoDB or Riak.

http://labs.spotify.com/2013/02/25/in-praise-of-boring-technology/ More often than not, the right tool for the job is piece of software that has been around for some time, with proven success. One example would be writing a backend service in Java or Python instead of Go or Node.JS. Another example would be storing data in MySQL or PostgreSQL instead of MongoDB or Riak.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html Security Engineering , by Ross Andreson. ‘It’s beautiful. This is the best book on the topic there is’ Bruce Schneier

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html Security Engineering , by Ross Andreson. ‘It’s beautiful. This is the best book on the topic there is’ Bruce Schneier

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ Read it. Take it with a grin of salt* . Nevertheless, the piece gives you sort of accurate prospective on how business views/values your engineering position

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ Read it. Take it with a grin of salt* . Nevertheless, the piece gives you sort of accurate prospective on how business views/values your engineering position

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/03/13/some-perspective-on-the-japan-earthquake A blog post offering some perspective about Japans’ preparation and planning for natural disasters

http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/ Notes about facebook internal PM process (release, builds, QA, deployments, management, etc) … Interesting that they manage to do their work like a small startup team, even thought they are #1 site on the Net and have ~ 2K employees.