Building software

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

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. 🐘 Around 15-20 clusters of them. Each cluster... See more