Hi, I'm Ross
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Thoughts
My setup
Links
- The New Internet
- Radical Simplicity
- I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass
- Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
- Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
- The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work
- I Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again
- Stop future proofing software
- Why can't we make simple software
- People come for the features but stay for the details
- The Thirty Million Line Problem
- The Only Unbreakable Law
- Programming culture is broken
- Solve Problems As They Come
- The Myth of the Modular Monolith
- Microservices - Please, don't
- Monoliths, Migrations, and Microservices
- Monolith First
- The Magestic Monolith
- GitLab Modular Monolith
- They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity
- Optimize for Developer Productivity
- DevOps is Bullshit
- Computers are fast
- Latency numbers every programmer should know
- Your computer is faster than you think
- Use One Big Server
- Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a single server
- Consider SQLite
- Use A RDBMS
- $2.2M/year single server
- StackExchange has 9 web servers
- Hackernews runs on two machines
- Cheap Infra
- Preemptive OOP is wrong
- Get OOP out of your brain
- OOP is not the only way to program
- An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity
- The Grug Brained Developer
- More thoughts on SPAs
- The web is a harsh manager
- Inventing On Principle
- Static Typing
- Scaling Yourself
- Being Glue
- Small Teams