What the desk read this week
The first of an occasional micro-column, three links and the reason each earned its place.
New format, occasional cadence: three things worth the minutes, each with its reason.
Cloudflare's post-mortem archive, reread from the winter forward. Taken as a sequence, it is the best free course in production networking currently available, and the tuition was their pain.
The DORA research library, because the 2024 findings on AI and batch size keep resurfacing in 2026 arguments, usually misquoted in whichever direction the speaker needed.
PostgreSQL's release archive, not for any single entry but as an artifact: two decades of shipping on cadence, documented in the least dramatic prose in software. Read it when the industry feels chaotic. Boring is available; it is merely unfashionable.
The builder's read is the format itself: a reading habit beats a feed. Three sources read slowly outperform forty skimmed.
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