My noteable links for July.

###18 Lessons From 13 Years of Tricky Bugs

###Why Excel thinks your CSV is a SYLK I ran head long into this problem at work. The TL;DR version is that if your first field in a CSV file is “ID” Excel detects the file as a SYLK file.

###Powering Blue-Green Deployments with Feature Flags

Blue-green deployments have long been a proven technique to mitigate risk in software releases. By adding feature flags, developers are ushering in a new era of blue-green deployments, one with unprecedented granular control over feature releases. This article discusses how to effectively integrate feature flags into your blue-green deployment process.

We use feature flags extensively on STAGES and it’s been a huge help for slowly rolling out new features to our users.

Normally, it’s just on or off for a particular subscriber but we have rolled out the feature slowly over several days (or in one case a week) so we could see how the servers (and users) handled the change.

###11 podcasts that will make you a better software engineer I’ve listened to or are currently listening to several of these. I’m going to try the rest as well.

###Comic: XKCD - Code Quality 2

###Here’s the Scientific Explanation for Why Introverts Like Being Alone

Helpful for the family members of those of use who like to recharge by being alone.

###The “Good at Math” Myth

###Multistage environments with Ansible I’m slowing figuring out Ansible at work (once I get the whole system down I’ll be posting about it) and this article was helpful.

###AWS is inappropriate for small startups because its complexity demands a specialist The complexity of AWS is what’s turned me off from it.

###Podcast: FLOSS Weekly 391 - DreamFactory

From their site:

DreamFactor is a free open source REST API Platform for mobile, web, and IoT applications.

I haven’t had a chance to look at examples for this yet but I love the idea of having a drop in REST API for my existing applications. If I ever get around to it we might use this for a couple mobile apps. :-)

###Podcast: FLOSS Weekly 392 - Apache Cassandra I thinks this is another one of those episodes where you need to listen to it so you at least have this technology in your head. Then if you need it you can use it.