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...

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Bob Martin is also known as Uncle Bob. He is an Agile Manifesto author, and author of books on Agile Programming, XP, UML, Object Oriented Programming, and C++.

Jim Coplien is a software pioneer in Object…

What We Talk about When We Talk about Performance.

This article will help you learn how Entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, makes life increasingly more complicated. Understanding entroy will supercharge how and where you apply your energy.

This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.

Ten. Million. Dollars.

Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.

That’s enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.

Here’s what happened…