Push to prod Good stuff about change, deployments, SLAs, DevOps and automation in Rollbacks and Other Deployment Myths and Part II.
RVP Charlie Robbins talks about JavaScript, MVC, MVVM and Resource-View-Presenter. Me, eagerly waiting to see what their forthcoming RVP framework looks like.
Unsupported You think IE browser half-life is bad? Let me introduce you to the no-updates world of Android phones.
Love story If you’re running MongoDB on EC2, you’ll want to watch Eytan Daniyalzade’s (of Chartbeat) presentation.
Delicious irony HackerNews, of all places, weights on Is brogrammer a sexist term?
Wrong by design Although it asks “Why economic models are always wrong?“, this article applies to all uses of models for prediction purposes:
The problem, of course, is that while these different versions of the model might all match the historical data, they would in general generate different predictions going forward–and sure enough, his calibrated model produced terrible predictions compared to the “reality” originally generated by the perfect model.
QotD Sarah Allen:
Software Engineering expects you to always do something you’ve never done before AND estimate how long it will take.