Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
specstory.com
As a last minute addition, I’d like to start this first (pilot?) issue with an essay about the paradigm changes in software development by Greg Ceccarelli. Yes coding agents are bringing the cost of writing code very near to nothing, something that was very expensive until now. This is only the beginning, and I’m very excited about the changes it brings to our work, but also about the “idealistic” parts that become the new normal. More on this in the coming weeks.
zhihaojia.medium.com
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thenewstack.io
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ops.tips
How to provision Grafana data sources and dashboards from config files at startup, so an instance comes up fully configured without anyone touching the UI.
stripe.com
How Stripe reworked its payment abstractions over ten years, from card tokens through the Sources API to PaymentIntents and PaymentMethods, and what each redesign cost.
cutlefish.substack.com
An argument that teams should extract the principles behind how companies like Basecamp or Intercom work, rather than copying their practices wholesale.
tilt.dev
An open-source development toolkit for microservices on Kubernetes, with smart rebuilds, live code updates into running containers, and a local dashboard.
calv.info
Eight lessons from Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen on the early stage — setting goals, communicating with investors, launching, and holding focus.
keda.sh
A lightweight Kubernetes component that scales workloads from event sources such as queue depth or topic lag, with 70+ built-in scalers.
