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Building software
Stormkit | Effortlessly deploy serverless full stack JavaScript applications
stormkit.io
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
The choice of the routing key in our case was a combination of the unique identifier (UUID) and type of the primary participant of each event in a calendar. This choice was made based on the querying patterns of the consuming application and to maintain a degree of uniqueness.
Improving query performance in ElasticSearch at scale
Laurence Tratt: What Factors Explain the Nature of Software?
tratt.netdegree of iteration in software development is inevitable. As soon as one accepts that logic, one must then also accept that software development will be subject to friction (i.e. unexpected inefficiencies). When I plan the future for a piece of software, I expect to encounter ongoing friction, and I try to allow for that. I remain astonished at how many organisations assume that a master plan for their software can be rigidly followed.
Home - Cocodrilo Dog
cocodrilodog.com
Efecto Studios – An experienced game developer, focused on developing video games for almost every major gaming device, with a team that has worked on several console titles.
efectostudios.com
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.