An Overview of Advanced Testing Techniques and Tools
Useful write-up and some interesting insights on testing techniques and tools beyondcthe standard unit/integration/load triptychon.
Never Go Full Rewrite
But when you do, you might want to take a look how the folks over at Channab reasoned about and approached their big rewrite.
The Birth of Legacy Software
How (easily) software becomes legacy, and how you and your team might eventually break out of this process: The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds On Itself.
How to Build a Good REST API
Pretty darn useful collection of best practices, do’s and don’ts for REST API design
A Ring of Snakes
I have to admit I only had the faintest idea about extreme programming until I read and understood this well written and terse summary: A Case Against Extreme Programming. One page, all you need to know.
John Carmack Notes on Quake World Network
Video game history in the making John Carmack on the challenges, tradeoffs and solutions incorporated in Quske Worlds network code
More than just numbers
Estimations help you think through problems, look for alternative solutions, creating a common understanding, modelling uncertainity. Estimations are about more than just churrning out some numbers.
18 lessons on debugging
18 lessons on how to approach debugging.