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Cloudflare serves around 20% of the web with 46 million requests a second.
Surely they must have a lot of data.
Where do they store it?
Plain old PostgreSQL. đ
Around 15-20 clusters of them.
Each cluster... See more
Quality software deserves your hardâearned cash
Quality software from independent makers is like quality food from the farmerâs market. A jar of handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced corn syrup-laden jam from the supermarket.
Industrial fruit jam is filled with cheap... See more
Kai Krause on how short-lived software is relative to other art forms:
You can hum a tune you once liked, years later. You can read words or look a painting from 300 years ago and still appreciate its truth and beauty today, as if brand new. Software, by that comparison, is more like Soufflé: enjoy it now, today, for... See more
i want to make software that feels like magic.
i want to make software that is useful, to many people; that is valuable, that makes sense. but that's also surprising, pleasant, funny.
i want to make software is serious and makes sense but is also silly and doesn't.
eugene is building untitled map apptwitter.com9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
papereditor.app
Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
amazon.comSoftware problems tend to evolve over time into philosophy problems, a point that's come up in a few Diff pieces, like the Antithesis writeup and Asana's ontology-as-a-service ($). In this particular category, it's the philosophy of work and vocation: a bond trader, accountant, or social media manager doesn't necessarily have to spend much time... See more