Finding the laws that govern us
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Rules for Bootstrapped Web App Startups
Allan lists 10 things that every startup should value.
Google releases a Chrome extension to identify web app performance problems
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Why I chose Clojure/CouchDB for a new site
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Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
How we reduced chargebacks by 30% (as a percentage of sales)
We’ve never had a lot of chargebacks (a chargeback is when a customer calls their credit card company to dispute a charge they don’t recognize), but last year we made a simple change that reduced our chargebacks by 30% as a percentage of sales. I can’t be certain the reduction …
Lord of the REPLs
While working on App Engine's new Java runtime , we realized that we were missing something important. Something the Python runtime already...
Matt Mullenweg's 12 Rules to Move from 1 User to 100k
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SSD Streaming at Last.fm
This is the second in a series of posts from the Last.fm engineering team covering the geekier aspects of our recent Last.fm on Xbox LIVE launch. Part one (“The War Room”) is here .
Heroku: Commercial Launch (YC W08)
When Adam, Orion, and I started Heroku two years ago, we had no idea how much new technology we would have to build to realize our vision of an instant...
PyPy Status Blog: First results of the JIT
Hi all, Just a quick note to tell you that we are progressing on the JIT front. Here are the running times of the richards benchmark on ...