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How great software engineers maintain outperformance
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How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps
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How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
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Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
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Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
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4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the…
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A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow
A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no…
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Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
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How one line of code caused a $60 million loss
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed
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