This book summarizes the skills and practices beyond writing code that software engineers should leverage to excel at their job within any organization

Post de autoria de Filipe Ximenes originalmente publicado em inglês no blog da Vinta. Tradução livre para o português por Eduardo Cuducos.

We've been using the wrong mental model to describe software development AI agents and this might be limiting the value engineers can extract from these tools.

I gave a talk at the DBX conference called The Future of Programming. Below are links and quotes from some primary sources I used, as well as links to wikipedia and elsewhere where you can learn…

This book summarizes the skills and practices beyond writing code that software engineers should leverage to excel at their job within any organization

In my book, Strategic Software Engineering, there are two chapters that explore what success is from different perspectives.

Notion’s data model enables the product’s most foundational component: blocks. Through blocks, we allow users more flexibility over their information.

A high-level overview of how PostgreSQL stores data on disk, covering segments, pages and more.

As we move software products using generative AI technology from proof-of-concepts into production systems, we are uncovering a range of common patterns. Evals play a central role in ensuring that…

🧠 Cognitive Load is what matters. Contribute to zakirullin/cognitive-load development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fixing your process won't get you out of a crisis.

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

Disclaimer: Details of this story have been altered slightly to protect the identities of individuals. "I'm just too busy. I barely have time to breathe, let alone lead the threat modelling exercise…

Software quality is more the result of a system designed to produce quality, and not so much the result of individual performance.

With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.

Insights that still shape the software industry

Anyone who’s seen a couple different production database environments is likely familiar with the “soft deletion” pattern – instead of deleting data directly via DELETE statement, tables get an extra deleted_at timestamp and deletion is performed with an update statement instead: UPDATE foo

One of my pet peeves is when people tell me what I should do. Normally, this is because they did something that worked for them, and they want to tell me I should also do it. I generally don’t want such advice for a variety of reasons:

There’s a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. TCP is a way...

It's inevitable, with every new generation of AI your ability to write code becomes less and less...

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- or will AI replace software developers? First, let's address the elephant in the room. Neither I...

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There's a lot more to managing risk in software beyond evaluating what can break and engineers...