This article [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/project-management-at-big-tech/] on how big tech does project management rings true to me. Most teams at FB had a very loose project management process, and almost no team followed Scrum as religiously as non-SV companies seem to. If you

After having worked with a 20-30k LOC Python project a few years ago I became a big believer in the power of static typing. Lawrence Kesteloot articulated why static typing matters really well in his article [https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/static-typing.html]

Lawrence Kesteltoot on Norris Numbers [https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.html]: > My friend Clift Norris has identified a fundamental constant that I call Norris’ number, the average amount of code an untrained programmer can write before he or she hits a

James Hamilton's paper On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ecc8/3096d1368ff7bdb78a13731774002207cf6d.pdf] has some solid advice on building large scale distributed systems. It was published in 2007, and since then much of the content has become common knowledge

Programmer Nelson Elhage on the importance of software performance [https://blog.nelhage.com/post/reflections-on-performance/]: > What is perhaps less apparent is that having faster tools changes how users use a tool or perform a task. Users almost always have multiple strategies available to

Joel Spolsky on 'architecture astronauts': [https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/] > When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing,