Software Engineering

Discussions about software engineering, including the collaboration, the techniques and the human aspect of it.

An interactive study of queueing strategies

published on 2024/12/01
Microsoft Garnet is now available as a global tool

published on 2024/11/24
mdBook is a command line tool to create books with Markdown.

published on 2024/11/11
8% of companies experienced ML project failures in 2023, with poor data cleansing and lackluster cost-performance the primary causes

published on 2024/11/05
Programming avant-garde

published on 2024/11/04
MedusaJS 2.0, an OSS ecommerce framework, is out

published on 2024/11/03
Stagehand

published on 2024/11/02
Revisiting the Outbox Pattern

published on 2024/11/02
Kestra is an open source orchestration platform

published on 2024/10/31
pkc-sharp is a .NET library for PKL configuration language

published on 2024/10/26
Testcontainers

published on 2024/10/26
Domain Storytelling

published on 2024/10/26
Drasi, the Data Change Processing platform

published on 2024/10/21
JSON Patch

published on 2024/10/19
Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge v4.0

published on 2024/10/16
Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object

published on 2024/10/14
Developer education at Jane Street

published on 2024/10/07
Recommendations for a Test Automation Strategy

published on 2024/10/02
98% of companies experienced ML project failures in 2023

published on 2024/09/25
80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding

published on 2024/09/22
DataMesh: How Uber laid the foundations for the data lake cloud migration

published on 2024/09/19
Learn Git Branching

published on 2024/09/16
Why Scrum is Stressing You Out

published on 2024/09/15
Founder mode

published on 2024/09/02
The happy state of property-based testing in C#

published on 2024/08/28
Cloud Actor-Oriented Database Transactions in Orleans

published on 2024/08/28
Incremental migration to Temporal

published on 2024/08/21
TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them

published on 2024/08/20
Google on Software Quality

published on 2024/08/15
ASP.NET Core Integration Testing Best Practises

published on 2024/08/07
Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator

published on 2024/07/23
Don't Overplan, Do Prototype

published on 2024/07/22
rrweb is an open source web session replay library

published on 2024/07/22
Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil

published on 2024/07/18
Learn about concurrency

published on 2024/07/09
Study finds that while AI can be great, it also struggles due to training limitations

published on 2024/07/07
Practical Architecture

published on 2024/06/27
Media over QUIC

published on 2024/06/23
Machine Learning Study List by Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of Open AI

published on 2024/05/18
On weekly 1:1

published on 2024/05/16
Complete developer's guide to Span

published on 2024/05/14
The guide to Git I never had

published on 2024/05/05
Beyond the HTTP API: WebAssembly and the Future of Systems Integration

published on 2024/04/29
Meta Horizon OS

published on 2024/04/23
Testing a Single-Node, Single Threaded, Distributed System Written in 1985 By Will Wilson

published on 2024/04/18
Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git

published on 2024/03/27
NATS Architecture And Design

published on 2024/03/14
Teable is a no code platform built on top of PosgreSQL

published on 2024/03/11
Pikchr

published on 2024/03/10
Bruno: a Git-Friendly OSS API client

published on 2024/03/10
Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using

published on 2024/03/10
Hoverfly is a lightweight, open source API simulation tool

published on 2024/03/08
Pingora

published on 2024/02/29
Common Mistakes in Modularisation

published on 2024/02/29
Testcontainers

published on 2024/02/28
The 14 pains of building your own billing system

published on 2024/02/27
ARCHITECTURE.md

published on 2024/02/25
Getting back to building software

published on 2024/02/25
Event Driven Systems-Lessons from the Trenches

published on 2024/02/18
A review Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

published on 2024/02/12
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media

published on 2024/02/07
The Dhall Configuration Language

published on 2024/02/06
The three types of time

published on 2024/02/04
Introducing Pkl, a programming language for configuration

published on 2024/02/04
SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files

published on 2024/02/03
VART: A Persistent Data Structure For Snapshot Isolation

published on 2024/01/31
Agile as a micromanagement tool

published on 2024/01/30
Coding on Copilot: 2023 Data Suggests Downward Pressure on Code Quality

published on 2024/01/28
redbean is a single-file distributable web server

published on 2024/01/24
How we built a fair multi-tenant queuing system

published on 2024/01/23
Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications - a paper

published on 2024/01/22
Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?

published on 2024/01/22
Programming as Theory Building

published on 2024/01/09
Microsoft Orleans 8.0 is out!

published on 2024/01/07
Decison table pattern

published on 2024/01/01
ESLA Workflow 3.0 released

published on 2023/12/31
On documentation

published on 2023/12/28
Interview with Reuben Bond: Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft | Durable Computing

published on 2023/12/25
Advent of distributed systems

published on 2023/12/13
Temporal .NET SDK has reached 1.0

published on 2023/12/12
A book: Beej's Guide to Interprocess Communication

published on 2023/11/27
CUPID—for joyful coding

published on 2023/11/27
Loro: Reimagine State Management with CRDTs

published on 2023/11/14
Introduction to CURP consensus protocol

published on 2023/10/31
Engineering management checklist

published on 2023/10/23
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023

published on 2023/10/03
Cuid2 implementation in C#

published on 2023/10/02
UUIDv7

published on 2023/10/02
Reorient GitHub Pull Requests Around Changesets

published on 2023/10/01
On quadlets

published on 2023/09/26
OrleanSpaces - A tuple space implementation on top of Microsoft Orleans

published on 2023/09/12
Death by a thousand microservices

published on 2023/09/12
On productivity metrics and management consultants

published on 2023/09/04
24 Key Capabilities to Drive Improvement in Software Delivery

published on 2023/08/08
Two categories of large-scale production system overloading issues

published on 2023/07/02
Culture eats policy

published on 2023/06/25
Worse practices in software

published on 2023/06/24
UI With Noria

published on 2023/06/21
Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications

published on 2023/06/21
My First Impressions of Nix

published on 2023/06/19
Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

published on 2023/06/19
My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects

published on 2023/06/02
A textbook case study on organizational dysfunction (Rust)

published on 2023/05/31
Wing is a cloud-oriented programming language

published on 2023/05/27
DRAKON is a visual language from the aerospace industry for representing algorithms, processes, and procedures

published on 2023/05/22
Why we created Taxi, and why we felt the need for Another Schema Language

published on 2023/05/17
Kafka vs Redpanda Performance

published on 2023/05/16
You don't need Scrum. You just need to do Kanban right.

published on 2023/05/08
Reflections on 10,000 Hours of DevOps

published on 2023/04/03
"Workflows, a new abstraction for distributed systems" by Dominik Tornow (Strange Loop 2022)

published on 2023/03/23
A good discussion on distributed saga

published on 2023/03/22
Observability and accidental distributed system

published on 2023/03/18
A glossary of all terms related to Observability

published on 2023/03/18
Wolverine is the next generation of .NET Mediator and Message Bus

published on 2023/03/12
Writing an engineering strategy.

published on 2023/02/20
A Human-Centered Approach to Developer Productivity

published on 2023/02/17
Windowing in a Kafka streams

published on 2023/02/09
Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System

published on 2023/02/01
The Ultimate Guide To Software Architecture Documentation

published on 2023/01/23
Community list of comparisons between Text to Diagram tools

published on 2023/01/12
ToolJet is an open-source low-code framework

published on 2023/01/12
Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies

published on 2023/01/11
The C4 model for visualising software architecture

published on 2023/01/05
Backstage, an open platform for building developer portals, made by Spotify

published on 2022/12/18
The Verse Programming language

published on 2022/12/12
A team that reduces costs of other teams is not on anyone’s critical path

published on 2022/12/01
D2 is a domain-specific language (DSL) that stands for Declarative Diagramming.

published on 2022/11/23
Use 20 byte random value instead of UUID for unguessable random string

published on 2022/11/22
A good post on part of Twitter architecture

published on 2022/11/22
Australian exchange pauses project to move stocks to blockchain

published on 2022/11/20
The Twelve-Factor App methodology

published on 2022/10/28
Agile needs to be more agile

published on 2022/09/04
The open source paradox

published on 2022/08/14
Deep dive on Redis

published on 2022/08/13
A simple review of kubernetes

published on 2022/08/11
Twitter confirms security breach affect 5.4 million accounts

published on 2022/08/06
What they don't teach you about sockets

published on 2022/07/26
How finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable

published on 2022/07/25
GitLab architecture

published on 2022/07/04
Message queue vs message bus: the practical differences

published on 2022/06/30
HTTP Security Headers best practice

published on 2022/06/17
Hertzbleed - a new breed of side-channel attack

published on 2022/06/16
FushionAuth, a free self hosted identity provider server

published on 2022/06/12
Complexity is killing software developers

published on 2022/06/06
Revisiting Falacies of Distributed Systems

published on 2022/06/05
A case study from 5 years of tech audits

published on 2022/06/02
About onboarding

published on 2022/05/30
Online ads bidding system keep tracks users in the US and Europe hundreds of time a day

published on 2022/05/17
Singapore Government Tech Stack

published on 2022/05/08
The Code Review Pyramid

published on 2022/05/02
.NET MAUI, Microsoft multi-platform App UI system has reach Release Candidate status

published on 2022/04/13
IBM ordered to pay $105 million to insurer over tech project's collapse

published on 2022/04/21
A new tool to scale

published on 2022/04/07
Architecture Decision Record

published on 2022/04/06
Building the tech instead of building the product

published on 2022/04/05
Abstraction at the right level

published on 2021/08/31
Citus Shard Rebalancer is now open source

published on 2021/03/17
Impressive growth on Microsoft Azure

published on 2021/02/11
Why does it take so long to build software?

published on 2021/01/27
A story of software implementation failure out of Denmark

published on 2020/08/01
The ruins of technology stack

published on 2019/05/28
Open source government

published on 2013/09/01
Refurbish, do not rebuild

published on 2019/05/12
Micro Services Frameworks

published on 2019/10/31
Security is hard

published on 2014/10/05
Game programming patterns

published on 2013/12/23

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