- Working Backwards – All Things Distributed
Quote: “… start with your customer and work your way backwards until you get to the minimum set of technology requirements to satisfy what you try to achieve. The goal is to drive simplicity through a continuous, explicit customer focus.”
(categories: amazon wernervogels design marketing agile process development ) - Well-formed data | Elastic lists
Very cool combination of infoviz and browsing.
(categories: classification data filtering information navigation visualization ) - The Institutional Yes: The HBR Interview with Jeff Bezos
Quote: “… But I very rarely get asked “What?s not going to change in the next five to ten years?? At Amazon we?re always trying to figure that out, because you can really spin up flywheels around those things.”
(categories: amazon bezos business strategy ) - UnintentionalObjectRetention: WideFinder and Java
An attempted implementation of WideFinder in Java.
(categories: java parallelization threading threads widefinder ) - How well do you know prototype: part I
Good list of ways you can use really make use of Prototype.
(categories: prototype javascript tips )