{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997677.jpg" title="Making the Right Decision Every Time - Ben Fathi - Medium" link="https://medium.com/@benbob/making-the-right-decision-every-time-839c50e34c00" domain="medium.com" date="2020-04-20" tags="product, tech" excerpt="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…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997874.jpg" title="You don’t need to stop shipping features to fix technical debt" link="https://medium.com/@ryan0x44/technical-debt-f5158cc9ca07" domain="medium.com" date="2020-04-20" tags="product, tech" excerpt="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" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997865.jpg" title="Team Objectives - Overview | Silicon Valley Product Group" link="https://svpg.com/team-objectives-overview" domain="svpg.com" date="2020-03-23" tags="agile, leadership, product, tech" excerpt="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 " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997572.webp" title="Clean Coder Blog" link="http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/04/15/DoesOrganizationMatter.html" domain="blog.cleancoder.com" date="2020-03-04" tags="code, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997633.webp" title="Typing the technical interview" link="https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview" domain="aphyr.com" date="2020-03-04" tags="code, interviews, programming, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997864.jpg" title="Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine" link="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/CLQYZENMBI/amazon-data" domain="bbc.co.uk" date="2020-03-04" tags="amazon, politics, tech, ai" excerpt="Leo Kelion investigates the rise of Amazon and its huge data-gathering operation" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997846.jpg" title="On Pair Programming" link="https://martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html#IntenseCollaborationCanBeHard" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2020-03-04" tags="programming, psychology, tech, thoughtworks" excerpt="A guide to effective pair-programming" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997860.jpg" title="Frederick Vanbrabant delirious rantings" link="https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2020-02-07-the-economics-of-clean-code/" domain="frederickvanbrabant.com" date="2020-02-19" tags="architecture, tech" excerpt="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?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997856.png" title="The Evil List: Which tech companies are doing the most harm?" link="https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/evil-list-tech-companies-dangerous-amazon-facebook-google-palantir.html" domain="slate.com" date="2020-02-14" tags="politics, tech" excerpt="The 30 most dangerous corporations in the industry, ranked by the people who know." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997861.jpg" title="How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades" link="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage" domain="washingtonpost.com" date="2020-02-13" tags="history, politics, security, tech" excerpt="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." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Work Is Work" link="https://codahale.com/work-is-work" domain="codahale.com" date="2020-01-14" tags="leadership, tech" excerpt="In which returns diminish." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/45/images/1055997799.jpg" title="Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective - The New Stack" link="https://thenewstack.io/observability-a-3-year-retrospective" domain="thenewstack.io" date="2020-01-13" tags="cloud, devops, distributed systems, tech, ai" excerpt="A summary of the observability movement over the past three years." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/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…" >}}