Interesting papers

• Holistic Configuration Management at Facebook

  How Facebook manages and distributes configuration - from small JSON files to huge machine-learning datasets - at a massive scale.

• The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension

  Advait Sarkar, 2015.

  Study measuring the effects of syntax highlighting - notably that it is useful, and programmers spend less time focusing on keywords when using it.

• Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network

  Hardt, Steve and Lopes, Lia C. R., 2015.

  An experimental voting system built and used inside Google that uses software to mix direct and representative democracy by allowing users to vote directly or entrust their vote to another user.

• Scaling Agile at Spotify

  Henrik Kniberg & Anders Ivarsson (2012).

  Describes how Spotify has previously organised their engineers into tribes, squads, chapters and guilds; aiming to avoid layers of bureaucracy and other problems often associated with large numbers of employees.

• Bypassing HTTP Strict Transport Security

  Jose Selvi, 2014

  Attacking NTP to force HSTS policies to expire.