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We’ll Never Know Whether Monorepos Are Better – Code Red

https://redfin.engineering/well-never-know-whether-monorepos-are-better-2c08ab9324c0

Even switching sides can’t tell you which side is better.

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Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9)

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/alexander-graham-bells-tetrahedral-kites-1903-9/

The wonderful imagery documenting Alexander Graham Bell's experiments with tetrahedral kites.

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Laser Socks!

http://glench.com/LaserSocks/

A sweaty game pointing toward the future of computing.

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The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason

https://jasmcole.com/2017/09/20/the-moon-blew-up-without-warning-and-for-no-apparent-reason/

Intriguing title, no? These are the first eleven words of Neal Stephenson’s novel Seveneves, which set up the remaining 600 pages as an extended treatise on the future of humanity as it

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Anatomy of a Rails Service Object | Stitch Fix Technology – Multithreaded

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/06/02/anatomy-of-service-objects-in-rails/

We’ve given up on “fat models, skinny controllers” as a design style for our Rails apps—in fact we abandoned it before we started. Instead, we factor our co...

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Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user-names-not.html?m=1

As one of the maintainers of eCryptfs , and a long time Thinkpad owner, I have been asked many times to add support to eCryptfs for Th...

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Welcome

https://www.airswap.io/

AirSwap is the engine of the new token economy, making it easy to find, price, and trade tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.

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15 Sep 2017

(New microblog based on JSON Feed!)

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Postgres tips for Rails developers

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/04/28/postgres-tips-for-rails/

Worry-free Postgres for SaaS. Built to scale out. So you can focus on your app—not your database.

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André Staltz - An off-grid social network

https://staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html

User Interface Programmer

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Scaling your API with rate limiters

https://stripe.com/blog/rate-limiters

Availability and reliability are paramount for all web applications and APIs. If you’re providing an API, chances are you’ve already experienced sudden increases in traffic that affect the quality of your service,

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bliki: MonolithFirst

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html

Going directly to a microservices architecture is risky, so consider building a monolithic system first. Split to microservices when, and if, you need it.

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Online migrations at scale

https://stripe.com/blog/online-migrations

Engineering teams face a common challenge when building software: they eventually need to redesign the data models they use to support clean abstractions and more complex features. In production environments, this might

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Designing robust and predictable APIs with idempotency

https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency

Networks are unreliable. We’ve all experienced trouble connecting to Wi-Fi, or had a phone call drop on us abruptly. The networks connecting our servers are, on average, more reliable than consumer-level

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