Weekly Digest #105

Articles

The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions

software has inertia

Why we’re leaving the cloud

Cloud

• when your application is so simple and low traffic that you really do save on complexity by starting with fully managed services
• when your load is highly irregular

Tutorials

Effective Shell

Tools

Notesnook, An end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

Sapling SCM is a cross-platform, highly scalable, Git-compatible source control system.

Off-topic

Photographer Helps Build Waterhole to Capture Incredible Photos of African Wildlife

Accidental $70k Google Pixel Lock Screen BypassCulture Docs: Facebook, Netflix and Valve