King & McGaw Developers

I’ve been enjoying the Art.sy engineering team’s blog. Their approach and technology stack are spookily similar to what we have in store for the next generation of the platform at Easyart. Even their blog runs on Jekyll just like this one!

As usual, I’ve spent a fair bit of time on Quora this week. The question What is Spotify’s architecture? had an interesting answer from Spotify developer Niklas Gustavsson. They have around 100 backend services, most of which handle only a single task.

Paul Irish’s Javascript Development Workflow of 2013 has a lot of good tips. Things are moving so quickly in this space it’s hard to keep up, so I find myself watching more and more presentations at home where I would have otherwise been watching TV.

HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit lists some interesting HTTP headers returned by popular sites.

There’s a great post called Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works over on the CloudFlare blog from a while back that sheds some light on how some of the underlying mechanics of the internetw work.

The best interface is no interface is very much an approach we are trying to head towards with some of the product customisation screens we’ll launch in 2013. I’m really excited about what next year has in store.

Finally, this post is my first one created and edited in Prose. It’s a really neat tool to create and edit code in Github repos in the browser, and is perfectly suited to (infact, created for) Jekyll blogs like this one.