Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)(startupwin.kelsus.com)

105 points by 0x54MUR41 3 years ago | 93 comments

Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day(read.engineerscodex.com)

183 points by engineercodex 2 years ago | 80 comments

Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases(read.engineerscodex.com)

441 points by gempir 2 years ago | 170 comments

Engineer's Codex newsletter post explaining how Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB to power CloudKit and store billions of iCloud databases.

Was MPLS Traffic Engineering Worthwhile?(systemsapproach.substack.com)

55 points by signa11 3 years ago | 24 comments

Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers(news.alvaroduran.com)

531 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 509 comments

Substack post from The Payments Engineer Playbook by Alvaro Duran on practical accounting and ledger design for fintech engineers, drawing on his startup mistakes.

Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews(seangoedecke.com)

52 points by zdw 1 year ago | 45 comments

Fintech Engineering Handbook(w.pitula.me)

597 points by signa11 4 months ago | 184 comments

An online handbook by Voytek Pitula describing software engineering patterns for systems that handle money, covering precision, rounding, currencies, ledgers, and audit trails.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer(tibinotes.com)

387 points by tb8424 1 year ago | 156 comments

A Substack essay by Tibi Iorga on how startups can work out their user experience without a dedicated designer, time, or budget.

The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)

458 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 130 comments

A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.

Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)

323 points by dfcowell 3 years ago | 185 comments

A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work(sujithjay.com)

346 points by amortize 28 days ago | 72 comments

Blog post by Sujith Jay Nair on how staff engineers on platform teams find what to build next using signals from systems, users, organization, and industry.