Industrial Empathy

This is Malte Ubl's personal blog. I write very occasionally about large-scale software design and web development.

New on the web

A curated, monthly-updated list of Tweets about web development.
Updated: May, 2022

Software design and architecture

Viral software deadlines 03 Jan 2022
The Context Tree Design Pattern 23 May 2021
Design Docs at Google 06 Jul 2020
Designing Even Larger Applications 16 Feb 2020
Designing very large (JavaScript) applications 15 Apr 2018
Developer Experience VS User Experience? 03 Jan 2017
Design docs - A design doc 20 May 2015
The cost of failure 11 May 2015
10x engineer 10% of the time 05 Feb 2015

Web development and performance

AVIF and WebP encoding quality settings 20 Feb 2021
More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web 29 Jan 2021
Maximally optimizing image loading for the web 28 Dec 2020
A high-performance blog template for 11ty 01 Sep 2020
Anecdotes about frontend and backend engineering 06 Apr 2015
Tradeoffs in server side and client side rendering 15 Jan 2015

Personal news

11 years at Google 04 Mar 2022