Blog, Page 97

Beware reading this book before bed. Not because it’s scary, but because the action scenes get your heart pumping and the cliffhangers make it impossible to put d...

A wonderfully eye-opening read on the profound changes that are going to happen in society as a result of technology. Kurzweil makes a compelling argument that te...

Hacking, crypto, humor, war, espionage, sex, marines… This book has it all. And then some. And then a bit more. And then even more… And even more… And so on, for ...

Why do so many software companies and developers give away so much of their work in the form of open source, writing, and speaking? Why would they invest thousand...

Building infrastructure for a software company is much harder than it should be. There are so many moving parts and so many concepts to learn. How do I build my c...

Do you like video games? If so, get into a video game mindset, and you’ll love this book. Like many games, it’s a bit unrealistic and cheesy at times, but it’s al...

This book has some really creative and fun ideas in it, as well as one awesome character, but it’s mired in poor writing (or, perhaps, a poor translation), unreal...

Docker and Amazon ECS are a powerful combination. In previous posts, I showed how to use Docker to package your code and how to manually deploy Docker containers ...

My second post on Y Combinator’s Macro Blog that discusses the safety mechanisms that make power agile software companies: Agility Requires Safety

I did a Q&A on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog on techniques for splitting up a codebase: Splitting Up a Codebase into Microservices and Artifacts