Good Ideas in Computer Science

Ideas every programmer likes and why Garbage Collection and Object Oriented Programming don’t count

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Jakub Chodounsky
May 06, 2024

Good Ideas in Computer Science
2 minutes by Daniel Hooper

Ideas every programmer likes and why Garbage Collection and Object Oriented Programming don’t count.

WorkOS supports both the foundational auth as well as complex enterprise features like SSO, SCIM, and RBAC. It provides flexible and easy-to-use APIs, helping companies like Vercel, Webflow, and Perplexity.ai become Enterprise Ready. WorkOS also features the Admin Portal that allows you to onboard IT teams to SSO in minutes. Best of all, WorkOS User Management is free up to 1 million MAUs.

Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?

Common DB schema change mistakes
24 minutes by Nikolay Samokhvalov

In his article "Lesser Known PostgreSQL Features", @be_haki describes 18 Postgres features many people don't know. I enjoyed that article, and it inspired me to write about "anti-features" – things that everyone should avoid when working in probably the riskiest field of application development – so-called "schema migrations".

There are many creative ways to use Makefiles to automate and simplify daily tasks. Tool is small and simple, available on any platform. Many of my colleagues considered this tool an “old school” or “obsolete” initially, but they eventually fall under impression of the recipes simplicity and now just replicate them all around.

This post explains one of the core design principle of Increase’s API, dubbed No Abstractions, which we’ve found useful as our product and company scale.

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