A recap of Moxie Marlinspike's article on the qualities that make a good engineer, emphasizing how software engineering is a creative discovery process that requires understanding abstractions, constraints, and bidirectional vision-engineering relationships.
A recap examining three influential perspectives on software complexity from Rich Hickey, John Ousterhout, and Zach Tellman, and how they define what makes software complex versus simple.
A recap of Marc Brooker's article on why tail latency (highest percentile response times) is more important than average latency and can dominate performance in distributed systems.