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A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow

How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction

Clever code is probably the worst code you could write

How one line of code caused a $60 million loss

The most valuable trait of great software engineers

Meta's serverless platform processes trillions of function calls a day

How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps

How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away From a Monolith

How Google writes clean, maintainable code

How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers

10 lessons from successful one-person startups

How Facebook served billions of requests per second Using Memcached

4 lessons from small teams that ship fast

How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

7 simple habits of the best engineers I know

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