Software Engineering

Coding practice

• How to write a commit message

Databases

• Connection pools should be smaller than you think.
• Data loading pattern
• Two Phase Data load and render
• Pagination in MySQL

Useful libraries

• Fully featured react component library

Software Rewrites

Dropbox does some rewriting

• https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine

Rewrite dl.google.com in Go

Google rewrote the service that serves chrome and other downloads in Go.

Slack Rebuilds the deskop client

Slack rebuilt their primary desktop app using React and a new multi team architecture.