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What You Need to Read This Week

An engineer’s view on business by Alex, who was an engineer at Twitter and started Simple.

 

 

Caching Tutorial
By Mark Nottingham | More articles on coding

Caching is one of the best ways to speed up performance for a semi-static application, but actually implementing it well requires more than just plugging in a cache gem. Mark Nottingham of Rackspace walks through how to set up caching well in this detailed tutorial.

 

The Management Team
By Joel Spolsky | More articles on leading

Think of your management team as the support team for your company.

 

Post-Mortems For Ten Products I’ve Built
By Dana Levine | More articles on failing

A candid assessment on the failure of 10 early stage products. Good to get a glimpse into what failure looks like and what you learn from it.

 

If I were an Architect
By Brian Marick | More articles on coding

A lean startup builds features and iterates quickly, but a well architected system looks like it was built with the foresight of every feature and not a clock-cycle more. How does a good systems architect balance these two opposing priorities?

 

Between failure and Facebook
By Chris Dixon | More articles on attitudes

The best thing about startups is you get to work with great people on interesting projects even if the startup doesn’t turn into Facebook.

 

[Video] Ryan Dahl on Node.js
By Ryan Dahl | More startup videos

Ryan Dahl talks about the history of Node and why he created it.

 

[Video] Simon Sinek on Meaning
By Simon Sinek | More startup videos

People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it.

 

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