A decent list of techniques to screw you up when it comes to testing.

This guide lists principles that will help you write impossible to tests code. Or, avoiding these techniques will help you write code that can be tested.

via Google Testing Blog: How to Write 3v1L, Untestable Code.

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Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability.

A great video on scalability and how Youtube built a site with 4 or 5 smart people that scaled incredibly well.

Cuong Do speaks about the problems they faced, the hacks they tried, and the eventual elegant solution they implemented and still run using.

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Our User Experience Research team has found that people evaluate the search results page so quickly that they make most of their decisions unconsciously. To help us get some insight into this split-second decision-making process, we use eye-tracking equipment in our usability labs. This lets us see how our study participants scan the search results page, and is the next best thing to actually being able to read their minds. Of course, eye-tracking does not really tell us what they are thinking, but it gives us a good idea of which parts of the page they are thinking about.

via Official Google Blog: Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye.

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