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Computer Science

  • maintain one source of truth - if there are two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. If it's not wrong, it's not wrong yet.

Dictionary

  • YAGNI - You Aren't Gonna Need It
  • Read-copy-update (RCU) is a synchronization mechanism that avoids the use of lock primitives while multiple threads concurrently read and update elements that are linked through pointers and that belong to shared data structures (e.g., linked lists, trees, hash tables).
  • OSI Model, What is the OSI Model?
    1. Physical layer
    2. Data link layer
    3. Network layer
    4. Transport layer
    5. Session layer
    6. Presentation layer
    7. Application layer
  • Cross-Cutting Concerns - Cross-cutting concerns are things that affect many parts of a product. And are hard to separate. For example, monitoring and alerting the health of the services.

Books

  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar
    • Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
    • Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse). (edit: "What not to write")
    • Plan to throw one [version] away; you will, anyhow (copied from Frederick Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month).
    • If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.
    • When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
    • Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
    • Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
    • Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.
    • Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
    • If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
    • The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
    • Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
    • Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. (attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
    • Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
    • When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible—and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!
    • A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.
    • To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
    • Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet, and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

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