Interesting Resources

Below is a list of things I found to be interesting. I bundled them here for myself, but even better if it helps you out too!

Talks and posts

Title	Summary
High Performance Microservices	Make your data time-aware so query results are always the same. Then, cache the shit out of it.
Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right	Using Little’s Law to better manage service capacity. Also gives some nice insights into how service architectures can fail.

Law Name	Law
Brooks’ law	Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
Conway’s law	Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.
Hofstadter’s law	It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Knuth’s optimization principle	Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Murphy’s law	Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Parkinson’s law	Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Wiio’s first law	Communication usually fails, except by accident.