Polyglot Persistence: using multiple data storage technologies, chosen based upon the way data is being used by individual applications. Why store binary images in relational database, when there are better  storage systems

Less Process, More Discipline :The key to agile methods is this: You may have less process, but you must have more discipline.

Service Oriented Agony: Unfortunately this is a huge violation of the Single Responsibility Principle — or its big brother the Common Closure Principle. These principles tell us to group together things that change together, and keep apart things that change for different reasons.

How to Create Maintainable Acceptance Tests: Prefer to test your application via the service layer or at worst the servlet layer; only test on the UI level if you really have to and only as little as possible for UI is much more brittle (and also difficult to test)
The more you want to test the more you have to pay for it in the terms of maintenance effort. Usually you decide so that you cover the part(s) of the application where the most risk is – the best thing is to do cost-benefit evaluation.

The GitHub Job Interview: You come up with a cool idea of an open-source project. This becomes your company’s development sandbox. Candidates are asked to then contribute to the project in some way

Languages, Verbosity, and Java: “A little redundancy in a language is a good thing. It’s important for readability.” Joshua Bloch

Amazon DynamoDB: A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries

Average Is Over:  the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and sagging middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession, but it is also because of the quantum advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution

Shame driven development:  it was throwaway, one-use code so didn’t have any unit tests. I was embarrassed. [...] the only way to go fast, is to go well

Cleaning a kitchen is a good metaphor for Refactoring: Neither would a cook accept that I go into his kitchen and say: I want my steak half the price, can’t you not clean the kitchen today? In the software world we let people tell us, do it quick and dirty, you can clean up after, when we have the time.

How netflix get out of the way: Who has junior engineers, graduate hires and interns writing code? We don’t. We find that engineers who cost twice as much are far more than twice as productive, and need much less management overhead

CQRS:  est un modèle d’architecture système qui sépare la partie lecture de données (query) de celle qui les modifie (command) de manière à produire un système extensible, distribuable, et fournir quelques avancées utiles qui rendent la maintenance du système moins pesante.

Tous bureaucrates: Ainsi – et c’est la caractéristique principale d’une bureaucratie – la défense des territoires y devient un objectif plus important que l’intérêt général de l’entreprise, sa survie. Car ce rapport de force moyenâgeux entre services se superpose à la traditionnelle séparation entre penseurs et faiseurs, autre caractéristique des bureaucraties

Strangest language feature:

JavaScript truth table:
 
''        ==   '0'           // false
0         ==   ''            // true
0         ==   '0'           // true
false     ==   'false'       // false
false     ==   '0'           // true
false     ==   undefined     // false
false     ==   null          // false
null      ==   undefined     // true
" \t\r\n" ==   0             // true

Les métiers de l’informatique: En France, 77% des jeunes diplômés en informatique débuteraient ainsi leur entrée dans la vie professionnelle à partir d’une SSII, alors que seul 1 % de l’effectif des SSII quitterait l’entreprise pour cause de départ à la retraite (contre 10,4 % en moyenne)

LA PÉNURIE DE DÉVELOPPEURS: Altaïde rencontre aussi depuis deux ans les pires difficultés à trouver des développeurs sur les technos du web et mobile. Trouver des développeurs PHP, Java, .Net, IOS, Androïd ou RoR, pour ne citer que ces technos les plus demandées, c’est une débauche de moyens et d’énergies énorme.

The Rise of Developeronomics: We are only just beginning to understand how software is now the core function of every company, no matter what it makes or what service it actually provides.

Why Play isn’t a Java web framework : The country that Play comes from is called the World-Wide Web

4 Types of programmer: action heroes are mostly extreme agile developers, technical gurus, and junior developers.

Testing Will Challenge Your Conventions: “Clever” is dead. Clever is hard to refactor. Clever is hard to isolate, hard to internalize, hard to phrase in tests. One point of “obvious” is worth two hundred points of “clever”.