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…
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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…
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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 da…
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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 da…
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Security Engineering , by Ross Andreson. ‘It’s beautiful. This is the best book on the topic there is’ Bruce Schneier
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Security Engineering , by Ross Andreson. ‘It’s beautiful. This is the best book on the topic there is’ Bruce Schneier
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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
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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
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A blog post offering some perspective about Japans’ preparation and planning for natural disasters
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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.
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