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Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know

• Retric 18y ago
  Vary focused on the web. Algorithmic Complexity, Interfaces, and Concurrency are far more universal than Cloud Computing. PS: Yes some people write the software in your bluetooth headset.
  • rbanffy 18y ago
    I miss my days of bare metal programming. I heard those things even have multitasking OSs these days.
• huhtenberg 18y ago
  Yet another semi-random list based on a limited research and someone's personal preferences. As virtually any other Top 10 list for that matter.
• aasarava 18y ago
  From the article: The technique of data normalization is about correct ways of partitioning the data among tables to minimize data redundancy and maximize the speed of retrieval. The part about minimizing data redundancy is fine, but I'm not so sure I agree that normalization is really about maximizing speed of retrieval. As we're seeing with high traffic sites, normalization is proving to be one of the biggest bottlenecks because of all the joins it requires.
  • rbanffy 18y ago
    Very true. Normalization is nice, but it usually won't improve performance. If it does, you should fire the guy that designed the previous database ;-)