12 steps Heroku’s twelve-factor app, a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps, is a great read:
This document synthesizes all of our experience and observations on a wide variety of software-as-a-service apps in the wild. It is a triangulation on ideal practices app development, paying particular attention to the dynamics of the organic growth of an app over time, the dynamics of collaboration between developers working on the app’s codebase, and avoiding the cost of software erosion.
Impress your boss Case study: How & why to build a consumer app with Node.js
Non blocking On the performance impact of loading JavaScript with insertBefore and async=true.
Think small Interesting tidbit from Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams:
QSM found another explanation for the huge cost differential between small and large teams. The defect rate for the large teams was five times greater than for the small teams.
/bin/sh To boldly go where no SQL has gone before: Relational shell programming.
QotD Coda Hale:
You don’t “beat the CAP theorem”. You “build distributed systems that don’t suck miserably”. At best.