January 2012
2 posts
ImperialViolet - Overclocking SSL →
Jan 20th
Strace -- The Sysadmin's Microscope →
Jan 6th
December 2011
2 posts
David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain : The... →
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Dec 22nd
Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things →
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Dec 21st
November 2011
7 posts
“It seems to me that Facebook and Twitter and YouTube—and just so you don’t think...”
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
Nov 27th
russell davies: how to be interesting →
Nov 27th
Why code review beats testing: evidence from... →
Nov 27th
Google+'s technology stack →
Nov 27th
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
Nov 13th
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) →
Nov 13th
EC2 to VPC: A transition worth doing.
kiip-engineering: Kiip recently completed a migration from EC2 to VPC. VPC exited beta and became generally available in all regions in August, and allows you to provision compute nodes within a virtual network in AWS. For anything more than simple websites, we believe migrating to VPC is something worth doing, or at the very least worth investigating. Because Amazon VPC is a new service and...
Nov 13th
9 notes
October 2011
8 posts
“At Facebook, there was a cultural resistance to process, to the point where the...”
– Yishan Wong: Engineering Management - Process (via Justin Singer)
Oct 23rd
50 notes
Deep dive: Cancellation rate in SaaS business... →
Oct 23rd
Caterina.net» Blog Archive » Killing the Abraham →
Oct 23rd
Urban Airship: Postgres to NoSQL and back | Hacker... →
Oct 16th
Rands In Repose: The Rands Test →
Oct 16th
Scala School →
Oct 16th
“If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious...”
– cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / Some lessons learned
Oct 16th
John Lanchester · The Non-Scenic Route to the... →
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Oct 8th
September 2011
6 posts
Debugging Ruby Performance // Speaker Deck →
Learn these tools, use these tools
Sep 21st
pyrasite - Trac →
Inject code into a running Python process.
Sep 20th
The Cooper Journal: Innovation is a waste disposal... →
Sep 13th
It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily... →
Sep 11th
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application... →
Sep 11th
Fault Tolerance and Protection →
Sep 11th
August 2011
5 posts
Roy's musings: SSL session reuse - how to find if... →
Aug 30th
SSL handshake latency and HTTPS optimizations. ::... →
Aug 30th
Find out what is using your swap | All things... →
Aug 30th
Ian Bogost - Gamification is Bullshit →
Aug 14th
Fastersite: Finding memory leaks →
Aug 8th
July 2011
8 posts
MySQL Soapbox: XtraBackup Manager - Backup... →
Jul 31st
mySQL DBA: Automated Innodb Hot Backup to S3 from... →
Jul 31st
“Still, it’s worth keeping an eye on the link between our vanishing boredom...”
– Scott Adams Blog: Creativity 07/13/2011
Jul 24th
How to use A/B testing for better product design |... →
Jul 24th
Things Everyone Should Do: Code Review | Good... →
Jul 24th
Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends? «... →
Jul 24th
Obliged to Do Meaningful Work | Smarterware →
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Jul 3rd
HDFS: Realtime Hadoop usage at Facebook: The... →
Jul 3rd
June 2011
3 posts
Three Aspects of DevOps: What’s in a word «... →
Good breakdown
Jun 25th
Scaling with MongoDB →
or not
Jun 22nd
Runit for Ruby (And Everything Else) →
Jun 19th
May 2011
16 posts
How to Get a Small Cert Chain « Mike's Lookout →
May 29th
May 29th
MySQL metrics for read workloads | domas mituzas →
May 29th
“To me, code is inventory. It is stuff lying around and it has substantial cost...”
– Michael Feathers: The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously
May 21st
SSL handshake latency and HTTPS optimizations. ::... →
May 19th
mnot’s blog: On HTTP Load Testing →
this is hard
May 18th
Sharding techniques at Mixpanel Engineering →
May 15th
Cool, but obscure unix tools :: KKovacs →
May 15th
Test::Right: Browser testing done right | Selenium... →
This looks immensely useful
May 8th