The Real Work Is Social
I get along with people. I talk, I joke, I do the normal office stuff. But even with that, something about how work actually works has always felt off. You think the job is most...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
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Simple Mutual Exclusion
When we design services for high availability, we often deploy more than one instance of the same application. It might be two servers behind a load balancer or a few nodes shar...
Hype in Software Development
We live in a time when every month brings a new framework, library, or architectural pattern that promises to change everything. Increasingly often, we come across a new technol...
Why I like JavaScript
Every programming language has its oddities and challenges. When it comes to JavaScript, it has probably more of those oddities. It's not the just language itself but also brows...
How Teams Choose Language
Choosing a programming language is one of the most defining decisions in software development. It shapes how a team writes, maintains, and reasons about their system. Today, the...