Articles
Version Control
By Christian Saunders
Small decisions at the beginning of a project can sometimes have much larger and difficult to predict impacts…
Links
Why re-invent the wheel when you can defer to experts in the field.
The following are links to articles, by authors unaffiliated with Kilobit Labs, that represent the current state of the art in their respective fields.
Design Docs at Google
By Malte Ubl @ Industrial Empathy
The format isn’t important. What is important about a design doc is that you have one. This is a description of some of the common content that you will find in design docs at Google.
So you want to expose Go on the Internet
By Filippo Valsorda @ GopherAcademy Blog
Hardening the Golang HTTP.Server so that it can be exposed directly on the Internet. Removing the need to use a reverse proxy to protect services. Fewer parts make for a simpler implementation.
Our Software Dependency Problem
By Rus Cox @ research!rsc
Sprawling dependencies have become the norm for software projects. Simplicity demands that we consider each dependency, the associated costs and benefits before blindly adding to a project.
Can the functionality be built in house in the span of an afternoon?
Is this a standard package, widely used throughout industry?
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Short answers on specific topics… Coming soon!