{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998991.webp" title="Rewriting the Technical Interview" link="https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-interview" domain="aphyr.com" date="2020-09-22" tags="career, code, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998987.jpg" title="Discovery - Judgement | Silicon Valley Product Group" link="https://svpg.com/discovery-judgement" domain="svpg.com" date="2020-09-18" tags="product, tech" excerpt="To continue with the series on common sources of confusion regarding product discovery, in this article I want to talk about the critical role of judgement in product discovery. This may in fact be the single most common confusion I encounter. I think the source of the issue is " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055997882.png" title="Combining the Best of AWS EventBridge and AWS Kinesis | by John Gilbert | M" link="https://medium.com/@jgilbert001/combining-the-best-of-aws-eventbridge-and-aws-kinesis-9b363b043ade" domain="medium.com" date="2020-09-18" tags="architecture, aws, code, tech" excerpt="I have been using AWS Kinesis extensively and effectively, with AWS Lambda, since 2015. I am a big fan. Now we have another great alternative, AWS EventBridge. Each has its strengths and weaknesses…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998989.jpg" title="How to keep the plates spinning in software development | by Mike Reid | Hu" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/how-to-keep-the-plates-spinning-in-software-development-b3df0fb222fc" domain="medium.com" date="2020-09-18" tags="agile, leadership, tech" excerpt="Imagine you have seven plates spinning on top of sticks in front of you. Each is precious and it’s up to you to keep them from toppling over. The last thing you want is a floor full of broken plates…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="If Management Isn’t A Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t A Demotion – charit" link="https://charity.wtf/p/if-management-isnt-a-promotion-then-engineering-isnt-a-demotion" domain="charity.wtf" date="2020-09-18" tags="career, leadership, psychology, tech" excerpt="I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets: (I originally titled this arti…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Intercom on Product: The principles behind how we build | Inside Intercom" link="https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/intercom-on-product-ep04" domain="intercom.com" date="2020-09-18" tags="product, tech" excerpt="Des Traynor and Paul Adams discuss the principles we use, such as \"Start with the problem\" and \"Ship to learn\", that help to guide us as we build product." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998983.jpg" title="A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?" link="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3" domain="theguardian.com" date="2020-09-11" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="IO Block Size for SQL Server, Disk Block Size - Pure Storage" link="https://blog.purestorage.com/what-is-sql-servers-io-block-size" domain="blog.purestorage.com" date="2020-09-11" tags="database, sql, tech" excerpt="Check out this Pure Storage post to understand a bit more about SQL Server IO block sizes, as well as backups and restores." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998984.jpg" title="Security September: Escaping CodeBuild - The compromise that wasn't – One C" link="https://onecloudplease.com/blog/security-september-escaping-codebuild" domain="onecloudplease.com" date="2020-09-11" tags="aws, code, security, tech" excerpt="Aidan pushes the boundaries of CodeBuild and comes away pleasantly surprised. This is the second of a 5-part series on AWS exploits and similar findings discovered through the course of 2020." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998971.jpg" title="The magic ingredient that improves workshop collaboration | by Will Lester" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/the-magic-ingredient-that-improves-workshop-collaboration-6f14d8bc9aba" domain="medium.com" date="2020-09-01" tags="agile, design, leadership, tech" excerpt="I love working collaboratively. I get a real buzz out of getting a group together, grappling tricky problems and bouncing around ideas. At its best, collaboration can be an energising experience. But…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture" link="https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/microservice-architecture/" domain="uber.com" date="2020-09-01" tags="architecture, microservices, tech" excerpt="Recently there has been substantial discussion around the downsides of service oriented architectures and microservice architectures in particular. While only a few years ago, many people readily adopted microservice architectures due to the numerous benefits they provide such as" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055997922.jpg" title="If software architects' soft skills fail, so does the business" link="https://searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com/feature/If-software-architects-soft-skills-fail-so-does-the-business" domain="searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com" date="2020-09-01" tags="architecture, career, leadership, tech" excerpt="Mark Richards and Neal Ford, authors of 'Fundamentals of Software Architecture,' share real-life examples of why architects must communicate well, and explain how to do it." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055997468.webp" title="Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Innovation on the Edge" link="https://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2008/05/innovation-on-t.html" domain="edgeperspectives.typepad.com" date="2020-08-31" tags="business, product, tech" excerpt="I’ve played on the edge throughout most of my professional career, whether it was doing deals in the Sultanate of Oman back in the 1970s, building a start-up around a new technology called the microprocessor in 1980, building a new..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Products are not Platforms | Kislay Verma" link="https://kislayverma.com/products-are-not-platforms/" domain="kislayverma.com" date="2020-08-31" tags="architecture, product, tech" excerpt="Learning to distinguish between products and platforms" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Being Fast or Getting Faster? (aka Build Momentum, not Velocity) | Kislay V" link="https://kislayverma.com/being-fast-or-getting-faster-aka-build-momentum-not-velocity/" domain="kislayverma.com" date="2020-08-31" tags="architecture, product, tech" excerpt="Setting the organization's goal to being faster over time ids better than just trying to be fast right now" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055997755.png" title="A gRPC Example: Our experience designing and building gRPC services | Bugsn" link="https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/using-grpc-in-production" domain="bugsnag.com" date="2020-08-31" tags="architecture, code, programming, tech" excerpt="Blog" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998974.jpg" title="Ice, water, steam: reflecting on the language of agile teams | by James Ber" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/ice-water-steam-reflecting-on-the-language-of-agile-teams-81c18d097c07" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-31" tags="agile, architecture, leadership, tech" excerpt="Lately, I’ve been thinking about what we need to do to continue our journey towards world-class engineering, and perform at that level over the long term. I’ve also been thinking about how Xero’s…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998965.webp" title="Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You | by Steve Yegge" link="https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-30" tags="architecture, stories, tech" excerpt="God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting to good use: my novels, my music, my game, and so on. But…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998966.webp" title="Building domain knowledge | Janella’s blog" link="https://blog.janella.nz/posts/2020/08/16/building-domain-knowledge.html" domain="blog.janella.nz" date="2020-08-30" tags="career, psychology, tech" excerpt="I started a new engineering role two weeks ago, after ten years at my previous company." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998953.jpg" title="Building greater accessibility into Facebook.com - Facebook Engineering" link="https://engineering.fb.com/web/facebook-com-accessibility" domain="engineering.fb.com" date="2020-08-29" tags="code, design, facebook, javascript, tech" excerpt="As part of our recent redesign of Facebook.com, we took advantage of recent React improvements to build accessibility into the foundation" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998942.jpg" title="The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities · Intense Minimalism" link="https://intenseminimalism.com/2020/the-impact-of-toxic-influencers-on-communities" domain="intenseminimalism.com" date="2020-08-29" tags="health, psychology, tech" excerpt="There’s a common character that can be often spotted in many online communities. It’s the “toxic influencer” (sometimes referred as “intellectual bully”). A toxic influencer is a person…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998940.jpg" title="Microservices Adoption in 2020 – O’Reilly" link="https://www.oreilly.com/radar/microservices-adoption-in-2020/" domain="oreilly.com" date="2020-08-27" tags="architecture, microservices, tech" excerpt="Everyone’s talking about microservices. Who’s actually doing it?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998949.webp" title="Let's build a Full-Text Search engine - Artem Krylysov" link="https://artem.krylysov.com/blog/2020/07/28/lets-build-a-full-text-search-engine" domain="artem.krylysov.com" date="2020-08-25" tags="code, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055997873.png" title="Asynchronous Communication: What It Is & Why You Should Care About It" link="https://doist.com/blog/asynchronous-communication" domain="doist.com" date="2020-08-25" tags="psychology, tech" excerpt="And what you can do to start implementing it, whether you're an individual contributor or a team leader." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055997834.jpg" title="Book Summary: Accelerate. Accelerate — Building and Scaling High… | by Trev" link="https://medium.com/@tdevroome/book-summary-accelerate-c531efe4c34c" domain="medium.com" date="2020-08-12" tags="agile, leadership, management, product, productivity, tech" excerpt="By making meaningful steps to introduce and improve your capabilities in continuous delivery, architecture, product & process, lean practices, and culture — you can create a profound impact on…" >}}