A living document of some nice real life dev experiences, documented elsewhere on the internet:

Title Notes
Bank python Simple & accessible interfaces for everything. Seemingly the anti-thesis of clean code
Brendan Gregg: The Speed of Time Flamegraphs discovers reading current time took longer on Ubuntu than CentOS
How Instagram Reduced Web Page Load by 50% Many optimization patterns for front-end, from HTTP transportation, to asset fetching order, to caching locally (and avoiding conflicts with new state updates)
How Instagram Scaled to 14 Million Users With Only 3 Engineers Postgres: pgbouncer, ID strategy for finding correct shard, (stateless) Django, Gearman, etc.
How Notion Scaled to 100 Million Users Without Their Database Exploding Doubling down on Postgres, scaling horizontally using shards and pgbouncer
Java Pattern: Algebraic Data Types Using the visitor pattern to mimic ADT in a relatively readable manner, despite Java™
LISP in Space Debugging hardware in orbit
Making services in an emergency UK government guidelines on how to build a servce when time is of the essence
Rich Already Answered That! Rich Hickey discusses the design of Clojure in depth
Unix and Google 'Coding at the perimiter', an approach to tackle the n^3 matrix of system ✕ feature ✕ platform - write programs that work together (pipes, everything-is-a-file, etc.). Examplifies with Multics vs UNIX
Using A Genetic Algorithm For Table Seating A solver with an interesting UI: choose between a timeout or a certain number of generations
War rooms vs. deep investigations A debugging journey lasting a couple of weeks, of a Facebook crash