{{< bookmark-card image="1055997919.png" title="How Stack Overflow hires engineers - Stack Overflow Blog" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/07/03/how-stack-overflow-hires-engineers" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2020-07-11" tags="career, psychology, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997899.jpg" title="The History of Search Engines - Audits.com" link="https://carlhendy.com/history-of-search-engines" domain="carlhendy.com" date="2020-07-04" tags="google, product, tech" excerpt="Search Engines play an integral role in the lives of many of us, sometimes without us realising. A purchase on Amazon, usually starts with a product search. A new vacation booking, often begins with a hotel search. The answer to any question, is just a web search away. We look at" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997903.jpg" title="Understanding the significance of cloud | ThoughtWorks" link="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/articles/understanding-clouds-significance" domain="thoughtworks.com" date="2020-06-29" tags="architecture, cloud, thoughtworks" excerpt="A whistle-stop tour of why cloud became the major platform for modern IT" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997862.png" title="Why are we so bad at software engineering? | www.bitlog.com" link="https://www.bitlog.com/2020/02/12/why-are-we-so-bad-at-software-engineering" domain="bitlog.com" date="2020-06-26" tags="tech" excerpt="Our industry's mindset grew in an environment where failure is cheap and we are incentivized to move quickly. Our processes are poorly applied when the cost of a redo is high or a redo is impossible." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997904.webp" title="Maersk, me & notPetya - gvnshtn" link="https://gvnshtn.com/posts/maersk-me-notpetya/" domain="gvnshtn.com" date="2020-06-23" tags="politics, security, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997643.jpg" title="The Architect Elevator — Visiting the upper floors" link="https://martinfowler.com/articles/architect-elevator.html" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2020-06-22" tags="architecture, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="Architects in traditional organizations need to ride the elevator between executive penthouse and digital engine room." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997901.png" title="Tackle Big-O Notation in .NET Core - Simple Talk" link="https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/dotnet/net-development/tackle-big-o-notation-in-net-core" domain="red-gate.com" date="2020-06-17" tags="code, programming, tech, dotnet" excerpt="Every computer science student must learn about Big-O Notation, a way to conceptualize algorithm complexity that directly relates to performance of the algorithm. In this article, Camilo Reyes demonstrates how to apply Big-O algorithms to .NET Core applications." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997900.jpg" title="C# 9: Simplified Parameter Null Validation" link="https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/06/CSharp-9-Null" domain="infoq.com" date="2020-06-17" tags="code, programming, tech, dotnet" excerpt="Simplified parameter null validation has been promoted to a C# 9 feature. This narrowly tailored feature reduces the amount of code needed to validate non-null parameters to a single character in the" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997898.jpg" title="iiSM.org" link="https://iism.org/article/how-many-of-you-know-deep-down-that-the-team-is-working-on-something-that-no-customer-wants-54" domain="iism.org" date="2020-06-15" tags="product, tech" excerpt="Most companies mistakenly apply value replication principles to discovery" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997897.jpg" title="How working apart brought our team together - Humans of Xero - Medium" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/how-working-apart-brought-our-platform-team-together-3ab02bde939c" domain="medium.com" date="2020-06-12" tags="career, psychology" excerpt="Historically, I haven’t been the biggest advocate of remote working. Sure, my team worked from home occasionally, but I always believed that in-person collaboration was vital for development teams. I…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997892.jpg" title="How I Learned to Have Uncomfortable Conversations | Human Parts" link="https://humanparts.medium.com/finding-my-fighting-words-how-i-learned-to-have-uncomfortable-conversations-9c0bb09c50c" domain="humanparts.medium.com" date="2020-06-09" tags="career, leadership, psychology" excerpt="I had 50 painfully uncomfortable conversations with strangers in New York City to practice being assertive under pressure. Here’s what I learned." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997896.png" title="Machine learning makes finding the right tech on the Xero app marketplace e" link="https://devblog.xero.com/machine-learning-helps-small-businesses-find-the-right-tech-on-the-xero-app-marketplace-4867515de66e" domain="devblog.xero.com" date="2020-06-09" tags="architecture, tech, ai" excerpt="At Xero, we’re on a mission to get more apps into the hands of small business owners, because we know when they’re connected to the right technology, they’re more likely to see increased revenue and…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997890.png" title="Bakedbean.org.uk - Developing Stack Overflow on MacOS" link="https://bakedbean.org.uk/posts/2020-05-stack-overflow-on-macos" domain="bakedbean.org.uk" date="2020-06-09" tags="architecture, code, programming, tech" excerpt="After a whole lot of months in the making we finally finished porting Stack Overflow to .NET Core 3.1 🎉! When you hit any part of Stack Overflow or the wider Stack Exchange network you’re now hitting our main application running on .NET Core behind IIS using the in-process execut" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997822.webp" title="The Culture Map: A Systematic & Intentional Tool For Designing Great Compan" link="https://www.strategyzer.com/blog/posts/2015/10/13/the-culture-map-a-systematic-intentional-tool-for-designing-great-company-culture" domain="strategyzer.com" date="2020-06-09" tags="career, leadership, psychology, tech" excerpt="If I asked you: what’s the one thing you’ll do differently tomorrow to make your organization a better place to work, where would you start? How would you design, communicate and implement" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997749.png" title="Web Developer Roadmap in 2019 – Yogeswaran" link="https://yogeswaran.home.blog/2019/03/19/web-developer-roadmap-in-2019" domain="yogeswaran.home.blog" date="2020-06-09" tags="architecture, career, programming, tech" excerpt="Introduction to Web Development Front-end Development Roadmap Back-end Development Roadmap DevOps Roadmap" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997867.webp" title="The System Thinking Change Agent Survival Guide | @johncutlefish's blog" link="https://cutle.fish/blog/the-system-thinking-change-agent-survival-guide" domain="cutle.fish" date="2020-06-09" tags="architecture, career, psychology, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997891.jpg" title="Row counts and arrow width, Compute Scalar - SQL Server Fast" link="https://sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/2020/05/row-counts-and-arrow-width-compute-scalar" domain="sqlserverfast.com" date="2020-06-04" tags="database, tech" excerpt="This is the fifth and final post in my May 2020 series about the Actual and Estimated Number of Rows properties in execution plans. In the previous posts, I talked about how you can use them, the confusion a Nested Loops operator can cause, how sometimes the graphical representat" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997858.jpg" title="The Future of Product Management in the 2020s - Product Management Insider" link="https://medium.com/pminsider/the-future-of-product-management-in-the-2020s-c58db9d9f08b" domain="medium.com" date="2020-06-03" tags="product, tech" excerpt="Paul Simon chose “The Boy in the Bubble” as the lead track for his 1985 album, Graceland, because it conveyed to the listener his mindset during the making of the album. Fresh off his divorce from…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997889.jpg" title="Did someone say BigQuery UDFs? I'll take 10! — Chris Tippett" link="https://www.christippett.dev/post/bigquery-udfs" domain="christippett.dev" date="2020-06-03" tags="code, database, programming, tech" excerpt="If you're not already a fan of BigQuery's UDFs, you soon will be." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997894.jpg" title="Remote-first: A behavioural pattern for product team design | ThoughtWorks" link="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/remote-first-behavioural-pattern-product-team-design" domain="thoughtworks.com" date="2020-06-03" tags="programming, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="Six headphone-wearing tech-workers on a product team sit together in a co-work facility, with an iron-clad rule that states that they must not talk to each other face-to-face at any time. To level the collaboration playing field with their 4 remote team members, they all use Zoom" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997893.jpg" title="The Remote Pairing Cheat Sheet | ThoughtWorks" link="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/remote-pairing-cheat-sheet" domain="thoughtworks.com" date="2020-06-03" tags="programming, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the distributed model to the forefront, with remote work becoming the norm, even for teams that are usually co-located. This impacts everything, from an organization’s global footprint, to cultural aspects like prioritising communic" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997881.jpg" title="Rebuilding our tech stack for a new Facebook.com - Facebook Engineering" link="https://engineering.fb.com/web/facebook-redesign" domain="engineering.fb.com" date="2020-05-25" tags="architecture, facebook, programming, tech" excerpt="Building a new web app for today’s browsers, we completely rebuilt our tech stack to achieve our goals for performance and sustainable future growth." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997806.png" title="Why Atlassian uses an internal PaaS to regulate AWS access - Atlassian Deve" link="https://blog.developer.atlassian.com/why-atlassian-uses-an-internal-paas-to-regulate-aws-access" domain="blog.developer.atlassian.com" date="2020-05-25" tags="architecture, aws, devops, product, tech" excerpt="Unleashing the potential of all teams with tips, tools, and practices" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997619.png" title="Productivity in the age of hypergrowth." link="https://lethain.com/productivity-in-the-age-of-hypergrowth" domain="lethain.com" date="2020-05-25" tags="product, productivity, tech" excerpt="There are few things more exciting than being at a company during hypergrowth, but it’s easy to let hypergrowth get away from you, and to end up reacting instead of planning. It’s hard to steer when you’re rebuilding a plane mid-flight, but you can always nudge it in the right di" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997684.png" title="Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt." link="https://lethain.com/migrations" domain="lethain.com" date="2020-05-25" tags="architecture, product, tech" excerpt="Migrations are both essential and frustratingly frequent as your codebase ages and your business grows: most tools and processes only support about one order magnitude of growth before becoming ineffective, so rapid growth makes them a way of life. This post takes a look at why m" >}}