Bookmarks tagged “tech”
1112 bookmarks tagged “tech”
Making the Right Decision Every Time - Ben Fathi - Medium
In the world of computer science, “priority inversion” refers to a condition where a low priority task gets to run instead of a higher priority one, potentially resulting in a system deadlock…
You don’t need to stop shipping features to fix technical debt
The easiest way to solve Technical Debt, and a framework to help you explain Technical Debt and convince decision makers to let you work on it
Team Objectives - Overview | Silicon Valley Product Group
After many years of being a very vocal advocate for the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) technique, in the majority of companies I meet, I have stopped recommending the practice. That’s because, in so many companies, even though conceptually the technique is simple and sound, it
Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine
Leo Kelion investigates the rise of Amazon and its huge data-gathering operation
Frederick Vanbrabant delirious rantings
Clean code makes projects more comfortable to work with and improves shelf life. Its the antagonist of vile legacy codebases that are unmaintainable. Then why does business always treat it as a secondary objective? Do they just dont get it?
The Evil List: Which tech companies are doing the most harm?
The 30 most dangerous corporations in the industry, ranked by the people who know.
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
U.S. and German intelligence agencies partnered on a scheme to dupe dozens of nations into buying rigged encryption systems — taking their money and stealing their secrets.
Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective - The New Stack
A summary of the observability movement over the past three years.
FlaccidScrum
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.
Anarchitecture - DEV Community ????
Development in Post-Agile, Managerless Teams Software teams often need a personnel as a br...
The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
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…
Do you have what it takes to be an agile coach? - Humans of Xero - Medium
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…
Product managers — get away from the backlog! - The Startup - Medium
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…
A Product Manager’s Guide to When to Say No to Machine Learning (and When t
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…
Talk write-up: "How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers"
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...
Why Container Devs Need to Care about re:Invent 2019’s Serverless Launches
A field guide to the 2019 AWS re:Invent Serverless launches.
Defining SLOs for services with dependencies - CRE life lessons | Google Cl
Learn how to define and manage SLOs for services with dependencies, each of which may have their own SLOs.
The Calculus of Service Availability: You’re only as available as the sum of your dependencies.
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
Why Good Developers Write Bad Unit Tests - mtlynch.io
The standard techniques of good development can lead you astray if you don't adjust them for unit tests.
Product engineers - Sherif Mansour - Medium
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…