Double Shot #2399
- Some items from my "reliability list" - Some broad guidance on things that help or hinder building reliable large software systems.
- When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop - Some info on why and how Slack rebuilt their core application.
- Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox - Some work towards making Puppeteer work across browsers.
- DSVPN - "DSVPN is a Dead Simple VPN, designed to address the most common use case for using a VPN" (namely, secure connections over an untrusted network).
- How (not) to sign a JSON object - Authenticating API consumers is just a big old mess.
- Advice for first-time managers - "Things we wish we were told, but learnt the hard way :)"
- Hakuna Cloud - SAAS to stop cloud servers when they are not in use.
- A software engineering manager guide to measuring a software engineers performance - Thoughts about an always-fraught topic.