An old article but a good reminder: you have to choose between latency and throughput, you can't have both in the same system.

One of those essentials questions in life now has some form of answer. Where is the blue/green boundary for you?

There, now this seems like a real thing... your phone recording you while you're not aware for advertisement purposes. Nice surveillance apparatus. Thanks but no thanks.

Aligning people with differing core values in a team is indeed necessary but difficult. It can kill your project for small teams, for larger teams you will likely need to think your organization keeping the misalignment in mind.

Very good article. I wish I'd see more organisations writing such design documents. They help a lot, and that allows to have a way to track changes in the design. To me it's part of the minimal set of documentation you'd want on any non trivial project.