Timeless blog posts and articles. I found myself sharing these links over and over again, so I decided to put them here.

Software development

Questions on software development and the organization of team work.

• Ship / Show / Ask. A modern branching strategy on how to relax the code review process without sacrificing quality.
• Frequency reduces difficulty on why you need to deploy more often if the deployment is painful.
• The Null Process on how the fear of introducing unnecessary processes can hurt your team.

Practical software architecture

Architecture solutions for real-world problems.

• You should separate your billing from entitlements
• Events are better than webhooks and Give me /events, not webhooks.
• Cosmic Python. The book on the architecture of Python applications.
• The Wrong Abstraction, a 2016 blog post by Sandi Metz on why you should avoid premature abstractions.

Refactoring techniques and approaches

• Make the change easy then make the easy change
• Workflows of Refactoring
• Online migrations at scale, an article from the Stripe tech team that discusses the dual writing pattern for online migrations.

Startups

• Do things that don’t scale, a 2013 essay by Paul Graham on why, counterintuitively, you should do things that don’t scale when you just start.