Double Shot #2358

The Patterns Behind Scalable, Reliable, and Performant Large-Scale Systems - All the links and reading that you could ever want.
Velocity in Scrum, actually - Velocity is only meaningful if you're actually finishing things.
Why I'm still using jQuery in 2019 - Because for many apps it still hits a sweet spot of abstraction without bringing in some giant framework and a million dependencies.
CircleCI docs are built by you: celebrating our open source contributors - There's a line between "encouraging community" and "externalizing costs"...not sure which side of the line this is on, but it's an interesting model.
Scrum is fragile, not Agile - "Whenever a Scrum project fails, it is because Scrum was not implemented correctly."
write.as - "Minimalist, privacy-focused, writing and publishing platform." Part of a growing backlash against Medium's drive to monetize their writers.
Why We’re Switching to gRPC - Because JSON/HTTP is a mess. Of course it's a mess than many of us know well.
Tests that sometimes fail - Don't just complain about flaky tests, do something about them.
Introducing Salesforce Blockchain - Really, MUST we?
30 Days to Web Development - Online course from beginners from Nicole Archambault that gets quite good reviews.
jTools - A "collection of lightweight common required javascript web components."
Open-sourcing our commit verification tool, Wilfred - A tool to bring some process to making sure all is well on staging before pushing out to production.
Enabling Modern JavaScript on npm - Javascript tooling and versioning remain a mess. Film at 11.
Prioritizing - Sarah Drasner steps away from the CSS to talk about figuring out how to spend your time.
How to block fingerprinting with Firefox - Check a box and relax.
Switch from Chrome to Firefox in just a few minutes - And while we're talking about nicer browser experiences, here's how to get there.