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Netflix also wrote about the drawbacks on this approach https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-edge-load-balanc...

I'm the author of that post. The goal wasn't to mislead - like I mentioned, I'm learning these things myself and definitely could've gotten several things wrong. I meant file offse…

Curious - does that mean you serve close to 1.75 billion requests per day, out of which 350M are unique requests that exercise your stack instead of being served from a CDN. It'd b…

I wonder what's the breakdown between unique files delivered as opposed to files delivered from the CDN cache. Also, what's the breakdown for file uploads, manipulation and deliver…

>At my recent companies, I've even seen senior developers, people with fancy degrees and 200k+ salaries, write code that's horrendously hard to understand and maintain, because it'…

Author of the article here. That's primarily the reason why there are no "concrete examples", because one person's concrete example is another person's definition of contrived. Spl…

Author of the article here. Nope, the article doesn't conflate DRY and small functions. But the quest for DRY can lead to an explosion of small functions, which isn't necessarily a…

Author of the article here. >The goal is not to make small functions for the sake of making small functions, but it's to compartmentalize some functionality into a nice, easier to …

Author here. > "The claims that "all abstractions leak" and that adherence to DRY makes code "hard to follow" is what gives me this impression." That's a simplistic -- and cherry-p…

Author of the article here. I find it really interesting you mention this: >>"when you find yourself violating them, you're supposed to question why" This is essentially what I see…

Author of the article here. A few things. First, I'm not sure you actually bothered reading the article, because the conclusion very obviously states what you're suggesting here, i…

I've enjoyed reading classic CS books like Unix Network Programming, but if you ask me to name a seminal book that came out in the last decade or so, I'd draw a blank. What are som…

There was a good talk at Strangeloop about userland thread runtime scheduling in both the Go and the Erlang VM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g9fG7cApbc

Paper by 53 or Sketches or Sketchbook or any of the several sketching apps available for the IPad would be my guess.