Collaborate Disseminate
The systemic issues became apparent the way they often do — when customers began complaining. Continue reading How Segment redesigned its core systems to solve an existential scaling crisis
Picture yourself in the role of CIO at Roblox in 2017. At that point, the gaming platform and publishing system that launched in 2005 was growing fast, but its underlying technology was aging, consisting of a single data center in Chicago and a bunch of third-party partners, including AWS, all running bare metal (nonvirtualized) servers. […] Continue reading How Roblox completely transformed its tech stack
Is Python 2 *really* dead. Or is it just shagged out after a long squawk? Continue reading Python is dead. Long live Python!
via Alexis C. Madrigal – writing for The Atlantic – comes this prescient piece, targeting technical debt within the United States’s physical infrastructure. Quite likely, the single , most dangerous and looming threat to our way of life. Read and watc… Continue reading The True Danger To North America: Unmanaged & Embedded Infrastructural Technical Debt
As every software company knows, over time as code ages and workarounds build on work-arounds, the code base becomes bloated. It becomes ever more difficult to get around the technical debt that you’ve built up over time. It’s really impossible to avoid this phenomenon, but at some point, companies realize that the debt is so […] Continue reading How Trulia began paying down its technical debt
Grady Booch on Technical Debt
“The concept of technical debt is central to understanding the forces that weigh upon systems, for it often explains where, how, and why a system is stressed. In cities, repairs on infrastructure are often delayed and inc… Continue reading QOTD Grady Booch
DevOps Deliveries
One of the reasons I like the metaphor of “technical debt” is because I see it causing in the datacenter the same paralysis as personal debt yields in households: people who lament for extended periods how awful it is, to the point that they miss out on the action to correct it.
Continue reading Un-stuck: moving past the garbage in your technical life