If you want to become a 10x software engineer (in 2026), read these 10 white papers: 1 Google File System ↳ It’ll teach you how to build fault-tolerant, scalable distributed...
Platform lock-in : A special flavor of product lock-in is being locked into a platform, especially cloud platforms. Such platforms not only run your applications, but they may also hold your user accounts and associated access rights, security policies, infrastructure segmentations and many more aspects. They also provide application-level
This led to a virtuous cycle: as more companies adopt Terraform, more developers start using it; those developers contribute to Terraform, fixing bugs, improving security, adding new features, creating new tools and extensions, etc.; that makes Terraform even more compelling, so even more companies adopt it, and the cycle continues. As a result,... See more
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more