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Statistics for Programmers As a programmer you want to know how your programs affect the world, when you do a change to the code and deploy it you want to know how it would affect your users, if you have many users and you use canary deployments and gradual deployments you want to know if this 1% of users that received your feature were they happy or not, this 1% is a sample, is this sample good enough? Can you infer from it to the broad population of your users? For this we need to know how to do sampling good, and to check if our sample is good or not, yes as programmers we also need to know about confidence intervals and the central limit theorem and hypothesis testing - but hold on we are not mathematicians we are programmers, this why this is for you because this is statistics for programmers. From reality to numbers to representative numbers to inference and testing with samples what is the true reality We are especially interested in the relation between samples to t

A recent book was published this year by Google about site reliability and security engineering, I would like to provide you a brief overview of it and incorporate my own analysis and thoughts about this subject while saving you some time from reading, at least part of it. Take a few of your customers and ask them, what are the top 5 features on my product that you like.  The answer that you are likely to get is, I really like how polished the UI is, or the daily report I get by mail is just fantastic, or since I started using your product I was able to save one hour a day my productivity got up and the share /chat button on document that you added recently is doing a great job. Your customers are very unlikely to answer the question of what top 5 features of my product do you like with I really like its security or I really like that we lost no chat messages since I started using it.  No real customer will even think of it, moreover, assuming you did a very good job, they won&#

Introduction Being On-Call is not easy. So does writing software. Being On-Call is not just a magic solution, anyone who has been On-Call can tell you that, it's a stressful, you could be woken up at the middle of the night, and be undress stress, there are way's to mitigate that. White having software developers as On-Calls has its benefits, in order to preserve the benefits you should take special measurements in order to mitigate the stress and lack of sleep missing work-life balance that comes along with it. Many software developers can tell you that even if they were not being contacted the thought of being available 24/7 had its toll on them. But on the contrary a software developer who is an On-Call's gains many insights into troubleshooting, responsibility and deeper understanding of the code that he and his peers wrote. Being an On-Call all has become a natural part of software development. Please note I do not call software development software engineering b