Understanding how the focal point of Bitcoin development operates.

Sometimes we technologists can be a bit too clever for our own good. The term technical debt, attributed to Ward Cunningham in a 1992 OOPSLA conference speech¹, may be an example. We use the term often these days, generally in the context of justifying investments…

Ben Nadel explains why his team has been hard at work merging "microservices" back into the "monolith". His team is not anti-microservices. And, in fact, both the expanding and the contracting of serv

Like the subject says I just wanted to thank you for this brilliant solution to this annoying problem! I am starting to use Linode's managed Kubernetes and they don't have yet an annotation...

BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his...

I started Gumroad in 2011. In 2015, we reached a peak of 23 full-time employees. In 2016, after failing to raise more money, I ended up back where I began: a one-person company.

I created this playlist for myself, but I want to share with you if your musical taste is like mine.

Why does it take so long to build software? We hear variations of this question frequently: Why is building software so expensive? Why is my team delivering software so slowly? Why am I perpetually behind schedule with my software? There is a good reason…

“Learn how to finish” is among the best pieces of advice anyone can give you, right next to, “Done is better than perfect.” A realized prototype full of flaws is ten times better than a flawless concept endlessly debated.

How can we get from a monolith to micro-services quickly?

A curated list of awesome company handbooks. Contribute to hkdobrev/awesome-handbooks development by creating an account on GitHub.

Despite an exponential increase in computing power, our applications require more machines than ever because of architectural decisions made 25 years ago. You can eliminate much of your complexity and cost by using SQLite & Litestream for your production…

Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. - Textualize/rich

Here’s a list of reasons why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance, assuming that your application doesn’t actually need all the columns. When I write production code, I explicitly specify the columns of interest in the select-list (projection), not only for…

Sure, we
all pretend to know them, but rarely do we think they
apply to us. Your manager certainly doesn't...