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7 simple habits of the top 1% of engineers
How elite software engineers maintain outperformance
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How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps
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How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
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How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
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4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the…
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A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow
A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no…
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How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
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3 predictions on the future of software after AI
Key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions.
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Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
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