Linux Performance Tools – If you’re one of those poor souls oncall and want to get a quick rundown of what tools you have available to you to troubleshoot different types of performance issues on Linux, take a look at Brendan Gregg’s talk from LinuxCon.

3D CGI With Ikea – Turns out Ikea furniture might be more ephemeral than you thought! Did you figure those immaculately designed rooms Ikea catalogs showcase were built on sets? Well in some cases they’re built in CAD, even before they start manufacturing some products.

How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team – Think it’s a drag having to deal with a giant monolithic app? Well try compiling your database into your deploy binary. Think you won’t be able to convince the suits to use a “toy language” called Clojure? Well try doing it after firing your entire engineering team. Colin Steel’s raucous essay on what transpired as Hotelicopter rebooted their tech all while trying to get acquired will leave you wishing for daisies and puppy kisses.

Happy Friday!