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Twitter’s Snowflake

When you have data at the size and coming at the rate of twitter, even the "little things" are a challenge. Twitter's snowflake is the internal service it uses to generate unique ID's for tweets.

The Rules of Agile Estimation

"1. Estimates are always wrong", so true. Read the reset on
Rails Test Prescriptions Blog

One of the hardest thing in computer science

...is naming things. An older, but timeless post on naming.

Role Suggesting Name

Testing as contract

Here is an intriguing post that asks the question, "Should the best developers in a team write the interfaces and all of the unit tests that exercise the interfaces and let everyone else code until the tests pass?"

Testing as Contract