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This is the story on how I speed up my terminal load time.

With the combination of Red Hat and CoreOS, Red Hat amplifies its leadership in both upstream community and enterprise container-based solutions.

Since the dawn of time (before software, there was only darkness), there has been one constant: businesses want to build software cheaper and faster. It is certainly an understandable and laudable goal – especially if you’ve spent any time around software developers. It is a goal that every engineer should support wholeheartedly, and we should... Read more »

Personas are useful tools for UX work, so why do they often fail? Find out what pitfalls cause personas to fail, and how to avoid and overcome them.

You got this great idea, but you can’t code. Or you read that startups with only one founder always fail. You want to find a co-founder…

1Password is hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). We have been using AWS for several years now and it is amazing how easy it was to scale our service from zero users three years ago to several million users today. We recently switched from AWS CloudFormation to Terraform to manage our infrastructure

Improve web app performance by 10x using NGINX features such as our reverse proxy server, high availability load balancer, content cache, HTTP/2, and more.

Jack White is implementing a "phone-free" policy at his upcoming live shows, so fans can enjoy a "100% human experience"

Incremental Delivery and how it changes the way you see a problem

What problems does it solve?

How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams , Amazon W...

Quantum computers should soon be able to beat classical computers at certain basic tasks. But before they’re truly powerful, researchers have to overcome a number of fundamental roadblocks.

In February 2006, Robert Hewitt was scuba diving near Mana Island, off the coast of New Zealand's North Island. Hewitt was an experienced navy diving instructor with 20 years in the service, and he told his dive buddy that he would swim back to shore himself. Instead, when he next surfaced, he had been pulled several hundred meters up the coast by a strong current.

An unlikely voice has joined the passionate debate over internet regulation known as net neutrality: Burger King.

Python Crash Course is a quick, no-nonsense guide to programming in Python.

High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL's full power. Learn how to design schemas, indexes, queries, and advanced MySQL features for maximum perfo...

The DevOps Handbook has 590 ratings and 58 reviews. Quentin said: tl;dr This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand, explain and implement Dev...

The Art of War has 222,853 ratings and 6,925 reviews. Anne said: Hey! Look at me stepping outside my comfort zone!I saw this audiobook in the library...

The Art of Strategy has 1,374 ratings and 78 reviews. David said: This book is an engaging, comprehensive guide to strategies, as applied to everyday lif...

The Linux Programming Interface has 368 ratings and 22 reviews. Anton said: Great book. I'm halfway through and I learnt a lot of stuff and cleared my un...

A great way to get started on building real-world applications using Scala and its tools and frameworks.

Peopleware has 6,174 ratings and 337 reviews. Ben said: Peopleware is something of a classic in the world of Development management and it makes sense wh...

Getting Naked has 2,479 ratings and 244 reviews. Michael said: Getting Naked is a metaphor advanced in a new book by the prolific and insightful Patric...

Clean Code has 8,835 ratings and 532 reviews. Oana said: These are rather notes than a review while reading:1. Use very descriptive names. Be consisten...

Who Moved My Cheese? has 270,381 ratings and 8,378 reviews. Seizure Romero said: SPOILER ALERT! I am going to save anyone who thinks they need to read th...

Andy and Dave wrote this seminal, classic book to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. Almost twenty years later, its advice is still spot on, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of our books, screencasts, audio books, and success stories. We're here to help you get on top of your game.

Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distribute content and grow traffic, it’s hard to know what does and doesn’t work. Medium, in particular, has become a major player in the world of startup content, but is it really that great?

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In the haste to address the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that shook the computer industry, several clumsy patch attempts have had to be pulled.