Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.
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This is a collection of the things I believe about software development. I have worked for years building backend and data processing systems, so read the below within that context.
Agree? Disagree? Feel free to let me know at @JanStette.
Keep it simple, stupid. You ain't gonna need it.
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Internet Scale Services Checklist
A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."
- Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
- Have we kept things as simple as possible?