MongoDb Architecture
Great overview with lots of detail
I don't hire unlucky people
Great parable about hiring
Big Data Counting: How to count a billion distinct objects using only 1.5KB of Memory
Like bloom filters but for counting.
Show How, Don't Tell What - A Management Style
Great take on management
Truth about Scala
Holy crap this is funny! /via @suthoff
How to Monitor Java Garbage Collection
How to use jstat to check gc.
Safety and Liveness: Eventual consistency is not safe
Eventual consistency needs to be quantified.
Threading stories: about robust thread pools
Interesting code to figure out optimal thread pool sizes.
