Big Data is (at least) Three Different Problems. Michael Stonebraker, the most recent recipient of ACM Turing Award, in his usual charismatic manner addresses the most common real (as opposed to imaginary) problems arising when dealing with large amounts of data. Tons of valuable insights about modern databases.

Facebook’s iOS Architecture. Facebook people talk about implementing Facebook app on iOS. You can clearly tell that classical MVC approach is terribly outdated when using it to build apps of the complexity you see in 21st century. It’s not that mobile development is inherently difficult, it’s just gets entangled and messy very quickly as the apps grow.