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“Serverless architectures are application designs that incorporate third-party “Backend as a Service” (BaaS) services, and/or that include custom code run in managed, ephemeral containers on… Read More »Serverless Architectures
“A cylinder sits in a room. It is impassive, smooth, simple and small. It stands 14.8cm high, with a single blue-green circular light that traces… Read More »Anatomy of an AI System
“With all the buzz around .NET Core I figured that I should tackle some of the fundamental issues that make .NET Core a gamechanger. .NET… Read More »What Is .NET Core? What Makes It So Special?
“Dear Dr. Kay, I would like to have some authoritative word on the term “object-oriented programming” for my tutorial page on the subject. The only… Read More »Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming”
“when making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. not counting any minimization techniques, the following… Read More »58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere
“Used effectively, white space is attractive and can greatly improve the usability of a simple interface. Long live bountiful white space!But what about complex interfaces?… Read More »Whitespace killed an enterprise app
“As time goes on I find myself increasingly annoyed with login forms. As password managers like 1Password (which is what I use) and Chrome’s password… Read More »Don’t get clever with login forms
“In the 1970s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University, held a series of space colony… Read More »Space Colony Art from the 1970s
“Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards. System design is a broad topic. There is a vast… Read More »Learn how to design large-scale systems
“When I was a Stanford undergraduate in 2012, everyone seemed to be building apps. The sexiest tech startups—Snap, Uber, Facebook—were almost synonymous with the word… Read More »Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App