Elided Branches

We're in the process of moving all of our major business logic out of our clunky Drupal frontend to Java backend services, and we took a...

I've been thinking a lot about complexity lately. As a systems developer at heart, I love complexity. I love complex tools that have eno...

Most of us in tech spend time thinking about technical debt . Whether it's a short-term loan or a massive mortgage , we've all seen ...

What's your uptime SLA over the last month, six months, year? Do you know off the top of your head? Is your kneejerk response, "as ...

I recently watched  this great talk  by Coda Hale , "The Programming Ape". It's heavily influenced by Thinking Fast and Slow ,...

Last week I wrote about scaling and some examples of recent scaling successes. That post has been in my mind this week as I've been th...

We've seen a lot of interesting stories lately about companies scaling massively from just a few users to millions in a very short perio...