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Blog Posts

Systems Design

• Systems design explains the world
• Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness
• Classic SOA
• Cognitive load is what matters

Testing

• Programmer Test Principles
• When TDD Doesn’t Matter: What Do You Value?
• Testing on the Toilet: Change-Detector Tests Considered Harmful

Databases

• An unlikely database migration
• A Database for 2022
• What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL
• YOUR DATABASE SKILLS ARE NOT 'GOOD TO HAVE'

Modularization

• Modules, monoliths, and microservices

Logging

• The log/event processing pipeline you can't have
• Logging: Rules of thumb

Communication/Management/Process

• Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule
• The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication
• An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage

Hiring

• Oxide Public Job Descriptions

Politically Correct

• What you cant say
• How to Think for Yourself
• Heresy
• The Two Kinds of Moderate

Serialization

Protobuf

• Protobuffers are wrong

Frameworks

• A Framework Author's Case Against Frameworks
• Programming with hand tools

Go

• What is in a name
• The Best Go framework: no framework?
• Three fallacies of dependencies

Organizing Code/Projects

• Organizing Go Code
• The Within Go Repo Layout
• The one-and-only, must-have, eternal Go project layout

Testing

• testscript, a hidden gem the Go team kept locked away