Caching: the art of useful reuse
Reuse can make a service faster, as long as the rules for freshness are clear.
Useful context for a changing world
The review.
A journal about the choices that shape software behind the screen. We explore responsibilities, interfaces, and the small architectural decisions that keep a system understandable.
8 stories to explore
New tools, familiar human questions
Technical change brings old questions about trust, attention, and useful work into new settings.
A retry is a design decision
Trying again is helpful only when the system understands what may already have happened.
An outlier is a question first
An unusual value deserves context before it is removed or celebrated.
Dependencies with a reason
Every borrowed component becomes part of the work you operate.
Where automation should hand back
A process needs a clear way to return an uncertain decision to a person.
State is a responsibility
Remembering information changes what a service needs to care for.
Static pages, dynamic possibilities
A page does not need to do every kind of work at request time.
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A small idea to take with you
Name one responsibility
Choose one component of an application. Write the job it owns and one job that should belong somewhere else.