Building software
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Building software
It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else. I don't want any help. I hate some of these modern systems where you type up a lowercase letter and it becomes a capital. I don't want a capital, if I'd wanted a capital, I would have typed the capital.
George R.R. Martin
The beauty of finished software
In a world where constant change is the norm, finished software —a software you can use forever with no unneeded change —provides a breath of fresh air. It’s a reminder that reliability, consistency, and user satisfaction can coexist in the realm of software development.
AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Q, the Most Capable Generative AI-Powered Assistant for Accelerating Software Development and Leveraging Companies’ Internal Data
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Pros
- The query speeds improve as, instead of instructing Elasticsearch to Get all the data matching... , you say Go there and get all the data matching... ( Fig 6 ). If you are querying data with multiple unique routing keys, this guarantees better or equivalent query performance as that of the default routing strategy (reducing the scatter and
Improving query performance in ElasticSearch at scale
Inverse-Conway-Maneuver: How to speed up product development teams successfully
Tobias Soffnerthoughtworks.com
Fantastic advice, for software builders:
Headline driven development
Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the
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Replication lag occurs when there is a delay between a write operation being executed on the primary (leader) node and the same operation being replicated to the secondary (follower) nodes.
Replication lag is a basic issue in leader-based replication systems that are made for better availability, scalability, and faster response times by spreading out read operations across replicas in different locations.
2019 when we got started with Linear, most SaaS websites at the time seemed to be these "Corporate Memphis" sites with vague benefit statements and weird colorful illustrations. No screenshots of the product and dark sites were very rare in B2B SaaS.