Former Uber employee Gergely Orosz teaches us why Idempotency is important when using external APIs in this great thread about how a bug in UberEats allowed $14,000+ of free food to be ordered in India.
Josh Wardle, the developer that created the viral hit game Wordle was interviewed by Wes & Scott on the Syntax Podcast. For any developers, this is a great episode that lifts the lid on all the tech worries he had to deal with once the game started to get really popular (which now has over 10 million daily users!).
The Stack Overflow blog published a piece on 4 software development metrics defined by Google over a 6 year project to understand high performance software teams. Deployment frequency, Mean change lead time, Mean time to restore, and Change failure rate are apparently the best way to measure software development performance in a meaningful way.
