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Every time I’ve written or spoken about organizational design, I’ve regretted it.There’s something about staking out a position on it which manages to prove me wrong a few yearslater. But I’ve been having some long thinks about it again, and here’s what...

Modern symmetric encryption is built around Authenticated Encryption with AssociatedData (AEAD) constructions: combinations of ciphers and message authentication codes whichprovide strong guarantees of both confidentiality and integrity. These constructions...

My friend Jeff wrote a thing a while back which contained a cornucopia of truth, one of myfavorite bits being the following:
“It’s slow” is the hardest problem you’ll ever debug. “It’s slow” might mean one or more of thenumber of systems involved in performing a user request is slow. It might mean one or more of theparts of a pipeline of transformations across many machines...

This article was originally posted on blog.skyliner.io on Feb 23, 2017.
It’s tempting, as developers, to consider automation an absolute good. We are, after all, paid toautomate work. But as the complexity of a system passes some hazy, ill-defined threshold, we need tobe very clear about the risks of automation in order...