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.
docs.google.com
A CC-BY introductory Kubernetes deck by Bob Killen and Jeffrey Sica, walking through architecture, pods, labels, services, controllers, networking and storage.
docs.google.com
Read-only view of the same CC-BY introductory Kubernetes deck, deep-linked to one slide, with a Minikube tutorial repository to follow along.
24ways.org
How to give a site a custom offline page with a service worker — cache it up front, then serve it whenever a network request fails.
newyorker.com
A profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the two Google engineers who code side by side at one keyboard, and the infrastructure that came out of it.
ontaponline.com
On Tap Magazine profile and interview with bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, tracing her path from sideman for Chick Corea and Jeff Beck to her own songs and first headline tour.
dramatiq.io
Documentation for Dramatiq, a Python background task library where decorated functions become actors dispatched to workers over RabbitMQ or Redis.
oldblog.antirez.com
What Redis durability really guarantees — the path from client to disk, RDB snapshotting versus the append-only file, and what each fsync policy survives.
engineeringblog.yelp.com
Yelp's checklists for posting and reviewing code changes — pick the right reviewers, keep diffs small, self-review first, and answer within a day.
firstround.com
Marco Rogers on hiring engineers: which recruiting conventions to drop, and four interviewing practices that scale.
github.com
A pure-Python consistent hashing ring, ketama-compatible, with per-node weights and pluggable hash functions.
solar.lowtechmagazine.com
How Low-tech Magazine rebuilt its site as static pages with dithered images and no trackers, served from a solar-powered server that goes offline in long cloudy spells.
medium.com
How Netflix grew Jupyter notebooks beyond data science into a company-wide platform for data access, workflow templates and scheduled jobs.
r.32k.io
Thirteen one-line engineering principles — don't be clever, code is a liability, make it correct before you make it fast.
nteract.io
Desktop application for opening and running Jupyter notebooks directly, without a browser or a notebook server.
agate.readthedocs.io
Python data analysis library optimised for readability rather than speed, offered as an alternative to numpy and pandas for everyday data work.
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com
Argues that source code is a cost to be minimised rather than an asset to accumulate, since every line carries ongoing maintenance debt.
