Data structures are part of the foundation of computer science. It pays to revisit them from time to time.
George V. Neville-Neil
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Taking Your Network’s Temperature
A prescription for capturing data to diagnose and debug a networking problem.
Frequent broken builds could be symptomatic of deeper problems within a development project.
How to determine when to put the brakes on late-running projects and untested software patches.
The pervasive and long-lasting sockets API has remained largely unchanged since 1982. How have developers worked around its inherent limitations and what is the future of sockets in a changing networked world?
Kode Vicious: System Changes and Side Effects
Every system change has to have some benefit to users, but every time you add a new responsibility a system is tweaked in some way, which usually has unintended side effects.
Kode Vicious: Permanence and Change
Highlighting the importance of doing one's best in view of code longevity and the impermanence of the changineer.
Kode Vicious: Pride and Prejudice (The Vasa)
Navigating the well-traveled course of communication failure that often leads to engineering disasters.
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