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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
Over my 17 years at Amazon, I have seen that my colleagues on the engineering team are never content to leave good-enough alone. They routinely re-evaluate every internal system to make sure that it is as scalable, efficient, performant, and secure as possible. When they find an avenue for improvement, they will use…
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Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
We still have a couple of weeks until the holiday season, but here’s an early gift for you: I’m excited to announce our brand new Original Prusa MINI, a smart and compact 3D printing workhorse with all the bells and whistles...
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Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
An update on the Hearthstone Grandmasters APAC competitive ruling.
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GitHub and US Government Developers
At GitHub, we believe in empowering developers around the world. We also believe in basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity. Today, I wanted to share a message I sent to all employees yesterday that is related to this, as it is important that we share our views on immigration policy with the…
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Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond
You now have the ability to keep updated, changed, and even deleted files in your backups forever by extending version history.
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E*Trade Announces $0 Base Commissions for Online Stock, ETF, and Options Trades
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Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world
An irony of studying history is that we often know exactly how a story ends, but have no idea where…
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We decided to go for the big rewrite
For small programs, where it would be a question of a few days or a few weeks to rewrite them, it will generally not be worth pondering this question for very long, and in most cases it will be better to just get started on either fixing the existing implementation or on rewriting it. For small programs it is possible…
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Why some software developers hate Agile
Many developers have been voicing their concerns about Agile being broken lately. Among them are prominent figures like Robert C. Martin and Kent Beck – two of the people who charted the original Agile Manifesto. Why is that?
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Global Smartphone Market Share: Quarterly
Counterpoint Research Insight
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The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon
Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.
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Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration
A new type of vaccine that can be stored at warmer temperatures, removing the need for refrigeration, has been developed for mosquito-borne virus Chikungunya in a major advance in vaccine technology. The findings, published in Science Advances today [Wednesday 25 September], reveal exceptionally promising results for…
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KDE is adopting GitLab
GitLab announced that KDE is adopting GitLab for use by its developers to further enhance infrastructure accessibility and encourage contributions.
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Which companies are using Erlang, and why?
Once upon a time, Cisco, Ericsson, Klarna, Goldman Sachs, T-Mobile, WhatsApp, Amazon and many other top companies kept a secret. Erlang was that badly kept secret. Discover more on our blog.
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Event Modeling
Event Modeling is a way to design a blueprint for an Information System of any size or scale. It is done in a way that allows the clearest communication of the system's workings to the largest possible cross-section of roles in an organization. The system can be checked for completeness by following the single thread…
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Culture Fit Interview Questions
Hire by Google is no longer available. Hire by Google was sunset on September 1, 2020. We are deeply grateful to our customers who have joined and supported us along the way.
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An HTML attribute potentially worth $4.4M to Chipotle
I recently found myself racing to fill out Chipotle’s online order form before my mother could find her credit card. In the process, I discovered a bug that could cost Chipotle $4.4 million annually. My parents are retired. They continue to try to pay for meals. I don’t want them…
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If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot
As a rule of thumb business owners should be primarily focused on delighting their customers in any way possible. Every subtle interaction should be closely optimized for customer enchantment, and a decision as simple as where to park your car can subconsciously attract or detract a customer.
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Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Overflow CEO
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth…
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Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas
As part of its commitment to US economic growth, Apple today confirmed that its newly redesigned Mac Pro will be manufactured in Austin, Texas.
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Update from Chef
IT Automation for everything from configuration management to continuous delivery.
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The Psychology of Colour
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America has two economies, and they’re diverging fast
Red and blue America dramatically represent different segments of the economy. Here is what you need to know.