Debugging PostgreSQL performance, the hard way
A story about debugging a performance problem with PostgreSQL.
While trawling the web I find regularly interesting articles which are worth to share. I also highly recommend to read the hackernews comments if avaiable. Archive.org has cached copies of each article.
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Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition
The Stack Overflow technology stack in 2016. Everything about their servers and networking.
Java Performance Problems in Minecraft 1.8
An article about peformance problems in Minecraft 1.8 due to excessive Java garbage collection.
A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11 Million+ Users on Amazon's AWS
A guide on how to scale to 11 million+ users when heavily depending on AWS services.
Instagram's Million Dollar Bug
Techical details about the “million dollar” hack of Instagram and how Facebook reacted.
Choosing an HTTP Status Code — Stop Making It Hard
Article about HTTP status codes and how to decide which status code is the best for every situation. Includes flow diagrams to simplify the decision.
Can Women Build A Better Tinder?
How most dating platforms are a misconcept in regard of male/female behavior.
System Information Leakage
What makes system informations leakage bad and how it can be easily used to exploit the system.
Startup Playbook
A guide about the key ingreedients to make a startup successful.
How To Get Press for your Startup: The Complete Guide
The process on how to get your Startup some press.
Is it just me or is networking really hard?
For those who think it’s simple to create a network game protocol - it’s not!
Denial of Service and Code-Level Application Flaws
How denial of service attacks can be easily used to attack an application at code level.
What does it take to make Google work at scale?
Technologies, hardware and technics behind the Google infrastructure.
The future of color in Web design
While many trends and techniques in web design come and go, one that remains constant is color. A story about colors in web design.
How to receive a million packets per second
How hard is it to write a program that receives 1 million UDP packets per second?
I quit the tech industry
Quote from Hackernews: “This is what burnout looks like.”
An article about a person which did too much and wanted less.
RESTful API Strategy
The guide provides guidance regarding the development of non-trivial RESTful APIs.
Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse
How organizational dept can be a lot more worse than technical debt when running a startup.
We have a problem with promises
Many of us are using promises without really understanding them.
Code Review Best Practices
Where to look at during a code review.
Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8
A guide on how Java improved over the years and what makes Java 8 that good.
True Zero Downtime HAProxy Reloads
Achieve a zero downtime re-deploy with HAProxy.
8 useful strategies for splitting large user stories
8 strategies about splitting big user stories into smaller ones. Includes also a cheatsheet for everyday use.
Java 8 Concurrency Tutorial
A guide about Java 8 concurrency in three chapters. Starting with threads and executors, afterwards something about synchronization and locks and finishing with atomic variables and concurrent maps.
The best icon is a text label
How icons with a bad comprehensibility can affect the user experience.
How And Why Swiftype Moved From EC2 To Real Hardware
A story about the decision to move away from Amazon EC2 instances to real hardware.
Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
What makes discipline more powerful than motivation.
SourceEngine for noobs
A short summary of the process to retrieve position information from multiplayer games based on the source engine.
Programmer Competency Matrix
A competency matrix for programmers.
How to Send Email Like a Startup
A guide to making every email count.
How to Release to Maven Central, in One Click
Background on how maven releases can be automated for open source projects on GitHub.
PostgreSQL: A full text search engine
A guide about the search engine capabilities of PostgreSQL, in two parts. Part 1, Part 2
Test Driven Development: Best Practices Using Java
Now it’s time to learn what the best TDD practices are.
Web 2.0 - Increased latency costs traffic
Some interesting details about latency and how it could affect the user experience.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
How to not program.