The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the next post we’ll look at the detailed analysis of how a team at Etsy handled a particular incident on December 4th 2014, to see what we can learn from it. In summary, software engineers find themselves in a very unenviable position when attempting to resolve an outage with their service. Why is this even a thing?

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

On OS es with browser competition, sites can recommend browsers with engines that cost less to support or unlock crucial capabilities. However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé. Safari, in particular, is wildly profitable.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.”

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. They often get blindsided by vendor’s pitch and end-up making decision based on some fancy demos (see my post from 2014 on Adobe AEM ). Circa 2014, I was working with a big Japanese automotive brand in Australia.

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