Stories by dondraper36

Scaling a Monolith to 1M LOC: 113 Pragmatic Lessons from Tech Lead to CTO

Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code

The Essence of Software by Daniel Jackson

Becoming Unblockable

Thinking Clearly about Software

Acing the Design Interview

Zalando RESTful API Guidelines

What is "good taste" in software engineering?

Designing Data Intensive Applications 2nd edition

Seeing Like a Software Company

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

How I know I'm working with a strong engineer

Good system design

Ask HN: Would you still recommend SICP in 2025?

Air India 171: Preliminary report confirms movement of fuel control switches

Air India 171 investigation focused on fuel switches movement

Ask HN: What are fundamental books on systems, system thinking, reliability?

The Best Programmers I Know

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