{{< bookmark-card image="1055997448.png" title="FlaccidScrum" link="https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FlaccidScrum.html" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2020-01-13" tags="agile, tech" excerpt="Scrum intentionally does not mandate technical practices as part of its definition, but it expects you to add your own. If you don't you'll get a sickly code base that slows down feature development." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997854.webp" title="Anarchitecture - DEV Community ?‍??‍?" link="https://dev.to/risavkarna/anarchitecture-4eng" domain="dev.to" date="2020-01-13" tags="agile, architecture, tech" excerpt="Development in Post-Agile, Managerless Teams Software teams often need a personnel as a br..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997604.jpg" title="The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace" link="https://medium.com/feature-creep/the-software-engineer-s-guide-to-asserting-office-dominance-ddea7b598df7" domain="medium.com" date="2020-01-13" tags="leadership, tech" excerpt="As a software engineer, changing jobs is a way of life. Every day, beautiful recruiters from top tech companies reach out to you on LinkedIn with new opportunities, and each new job equals higher pay…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997850.jpg" title="Do you have what it takes to be an agile coach? - Humans of Xero - Medium" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-an-agile-coach-6d702ea6694e" domain="medium.com" date="2020-01-13" tags="agile, leadership, tech" excerpt="Before joining Xero, I used to work in project management. The way we ran projects was to think about people as specialised resources who would be deployed to different initiatives. But there was one…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997849.webp" title="Product managers — get away from the backlog! - The Startup - Medium" link="https://medium.com/swlh/product-managers-get-away-from-the-backlog-f49916a90dfb" domain="medium.com" date="2020-01-13" tags="product, tech" excerpt="Controversial? Some might say “yes,” but I hope to change your mind by the end of this article. Marty Cagan wrote an excellent article a couple of months ago highlighting the differences between…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997852.png" title="A Product Manager’s Guide to When to Say No to Machine Learning (and When t" link="https://medium.com/semi-random-thoughts/a-product-managers-guide-to-when-to-say-no-to-machine-learning-and-when-to-say-yes-1cd6d7884c7" domain="medium.com" date="2020-01-13" tags="product, tech, ai" excerpt="Product managers, myself included, face increasing pressure to integrate machine learning into their products. This pressure comes from many places: engineers and data scientists excited by…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997853.webp" title="Talk write-up: \"How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers\"" link="https://srvaroa.github.io/paas/infrastructure/platform/kubernetes/cloud/2020/01/02/talk-how-to-build-a-paas-for-1500-engineers.html" domain="srvaroa.github.io" date="2020-01-13" tags="devops, tech" excerpt="This article is based on a presentation I gave as part ofAdevintaTalks in Barcelona on November 2019.I’m experimenting with this format: I went through the s..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997848.webp" title="Why Container Devs Need to Care about re:Invent 2019’s Serverless Launches" link="https://medium.com/@timawagner/not-using-serverless-yet-why-you-need-to-care-about-re-invent-2019s-serverless-launches-c26fa0263d77" domain="medium.com" date="2020-01-13" tags="architecture, aws, tech" excerpt="A field guide to the 2019 AWS re:Invent Serverless launches." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997720.jpg" title="Defining SLOs for services with dependencies - CRE life lessons | Google Cl" link="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/defining-slos-for-services-with-dependencies-cre-life-lessons" domain="cloud.google.com" date="2020-01-10" tags="architecture, devops, distributed systems, tech" excerpt="Learn how to define and manage SLOs for services with dependencies, each of which may have their own SLOs." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997642.webp" title="The Calculus of Service Availability: You’re only as available as the sum of your dependencies." link="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3096459" domain="queue.acm.org" date="2020-01-10" tags="architecture, devops, distributed systems, tech" excerpt="Most services offered by Google aim to offer 99.99 percent (sometimes referred to as the \"four 9s\") availability to users. Some services contractually commit to a lower figure externally but set a 99.99 percent target internally. This more stringent target accounts for situatio" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997851.png" title="NULL complexities – Part 1 - SQLPerformance.com" link="https://sqlperformance.com/2019/12/t-sql-queries/null-complexities-part-1" domain="sqlperformance.com" date="2019-12-17" tags="code, database, sql" excerpt="Itzik Ben-Gan kicks off a new series of Transact-SQL blog posts treating NULL handling in SQL Server." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997847.webp" title="Monads aren't as hard as you think Ying Wang" link="https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2019/12/06/monads" domain="bytes.yingw787.com" date="2019-12-16" tags="code, python, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997725.jpg" title="Why Good Developers Write Bad Unit Tests - mtlynch.io" link="https://mtlynch.io/good-developers-bad-tests" domain="mtlynch.io" date="2019-12-16" tags="code, tech, testing" excerpt="The standard techniques of good development can lead you astray if you don't adjust them for unit tests." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997594.webp" title="How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity" link="https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-to-boost-your-teams-productivity" domain="hbr.org" date="2019-12-16" tags="leadership" excerpt="Set clear expectations." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Product engineers - Sherif Mansour - Medium" link="https://sherifmansour.medium.com/product-engineers-f424da766871" domain="sherifmansour.medium.com" date="2019-12-10" tags="career, product, psychology, tech" excerpt="We had just finished a customer conference and on a long, 14-felt-like-18 hour flight from San Francisco back to Sydney. I was sitting next to Jean-Michel Lemieux (“JML” ), our head of Engineering at…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997707.png" title="The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) -" link="https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2012/06/12/the-care-and-feeding-of-software-engineers-or-why-engineers-are-grumpy" domain="humanwhocodes.com" date="2019-12-10" tags="tech" excerpt="The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997826.png" title="We Overengineered a Teapot - Better Programming - Medium" link="https://medium.com/better-programming/we-overengineered-a-teapot-c718251ce897" domain="medium.com" date="2019-12-06" tags="architecture, programming, tech" excerpt="Overengineering is fun, but it can trick you and your team into thinking actual value is delivered." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997845.webp" title="The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed! | Programming.Guide" link="https://programming.guide/worlds-most-copied-so-snippet.html" domain="programming.guide" date="2019-12-04" tags="code, programming, tech" excerpt="In a recent study titled Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects, an answer I wrote almost a decade ago was found to be the most copied snippet on Stack Overflow. Ironically it happens to be buggy." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997651.webp" title="The Service Mesh: What Every Software Engineer Needs to Know about the Worl" link="https://servicemesh.io" domain="servicemesh.io" date="2019-12-04" tags="architecture, microservices, tech" excerpt="Architecturally, a service mesh is nothing more than a bunch of userspace proxies stuck next to your services plus a set of management processes" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997742.png" title="Quantum computing for the very curious" link="https://quantum.country/qcvc" domain="quantum.country" date="2019-12-04" tags="programming, science, stories" excerpt="Presented in an experimental mnemonic medium that makes it almost effortless to remember what you read" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Applying systems thinking in product design" link="https://www.intercom.com/blog/applying-systems-thinking-in-product-design" domain="intercom.com" date="2019-11-18" tags="architecture, design, product, tech" excerpt="Tips for using system thinking to prioritize problems when designing a product's foundation before tackling the specific interactions." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997627.png" title="htop explained | peteris.rocks" link="https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop" domain="peteris.rocks" date="2019-11-18" tags="devops, history, programming, tech" excerpt="Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997843.jpg" title="Are Your Microservices Overly Chatty? - The New Stack" link="https://thenewstack.io/are-your-microservices-overly-chatty" domain="thenewstack.io" date="2019-11-14" tags="architecture, tech" excerpt="Using synchronous communications, like REST, across an entire system makes it behave like a monolith. ironSource describes a different approach." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997842.jpg" title="The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 - Results - AshleyNolan.co.uk - Blog and" link="https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2019-results" domain="ashleynolan.co.uk" date="2019-11-14" tags="css, javascript, programming, tech" excerpt="The results of the 2019 Front-End Tooling Survey are out! Check out the results and analysis of the responses here." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997844.png" title="Announcing the Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure by default, composable" link="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/announcing-the-bytecode-alliance" domain="hacks.mozilla.org" date="2019-11-13" tags="javascript, programming, security, tech" excerpt="Lin Clark introduces the Bytecode Alliance, and uses Code Cartoon illustrations to share their vision of a WebAssembly ecosystem that is secure by default, fixing cracks in today’s software foundations. ..." >}}