Read it or Throw it #206

1. How Discord Stores Billions of Messages

Discord explaining why they went with Cassandra for their messages storage

and how they implemented their sharding using a composite key

2. GitLab raises $100 million from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1 billion valuation

GitLab aims to be a one-stop-shop for all development cycle 

3. Paradigms of Rust for the Go developer

An informative article that focuses on Rust concurrency vs Go concurrency

4. SQream Boasts 15x Speedup for GPU Data Warehouse

Another database I'd really like to experiment someday

5. Debug considerations for high level system architecture (by Ayende)

Debuggability is one of the most important capabilities of a production-ready Software

6. Garbage Collection vs Automatic Reference Counting

Two of the most common techniques for automatically reclaiming unused memory

(read also how Rust manages memory here)

7. Cloud Spanner Live Demo

A very short video demonstrating briefly Google Spanner 

8. WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers

The future of CDN capabilities is running code on the Edge and Cloudflare seems to be taking the lead here

9. The most important skill you can learn

A nice life-hacking article

10. 12 Shocking Habits of Successful People (YouTube)

Some good tips for increasing our daily productivity (I can sympathise with some of them)

Make It Work Make It Right Make It Fast

Kent Beck