{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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="/bookmarks/page/46/images/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. ..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997631.jpg" title="The most important thing Dropbox did to scale Product Management" link="https://medium.com/@slynch/the-most-important-thing-dropbox-did-to-scale-product-management-fed90e30697e" domain="medium.com" date="2019-11-07" tags="product, tech" excerpt="I spent a lot of time in 2016 doing mentoring, advising, and consulting. Many conversations revolved around building product management teams, and through those conversations, I’ve got to reflect on…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997729.webp" title="An Honest Review of AWS Managed Apache Kafka: Amazon MSK" link="https://medium.com/@stephane.maarek/an-honest-review-of-aws-managed-apache-kafka-amazon-msk-94b1ff9459d8" domain="medium.com" date="2019-11-07" tags="architecture, aws, tech" excerpt="This article was written when Amazon MSK was released in beta form and since then MSK has tremendously improved. I have created an online course in partnership with AWS to help you learn it and I’ve…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997840.png" title="GraphQL Search Indexing - Netflix TechBlog" link="https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/graphql-search-indexing-334c92e0d8d5" domain="medium.com" date="2019-11-07" tags="data, database, tech" excerpt="Almost a year ago we described our learnings from adopting GraphQL on the Netflix Marketing Tech team. We have a lot more to share since then! There are plenty of existing resources describing how to…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997833.jpg" title="Availability Groups and Redo Latency, Data Committed on a Primary isn’t Vis" link="https://sqlundercover.com/2019/10/16/availability-groups-and-redo-latency-data-committed-on-a-primary-isnt-visible-on-a-synchronous-secondary" domain="sqlundercover.com" date="2019-10-29" tags="database, sql, tech" excerpt="If you’re running availability groups it may seem like a great idea to offload your read only reporting workloads to a secondary. There are a couple of ways that you could do that, you could …" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997645.gif" title="The worst volume control UI in the world - UX Collective" link="https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950" domain="uxdesign.cc" date="2019-10-28" tags="design, tech" excerpt="A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume control interface in the world: Yep. That super simple volume…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997828.jpg" title="Open Source is Broken - Don Goodman - Medium" link="https://medium.com/@degoodmanwilson/open-source-is-broken-d836efbceb4f" domain="medium.com" date="2019-10-25" tags="code, politics, tech" excerpt="The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns. Openness, they claim, is an absolute good, from which all other virtues flow, not to be…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997836.jpg" title="Council Post: 13 Tech Experts Predict The Next Big Trend In Software Develo" link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/10/21/13-tech-experts-predict-the-next-big-trend-in-software-development/amp" domain="forbes.com" date="2019-10-23" tags="history, tech" excerpt="Members of Forbes Technology Council share their predictions for upcoming trends in software development." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997837.png" title="Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku | Heroku" link="https://blog.heroku.com/automated-continuous-deployment-at-heroku" domain="blog.heroku.com" date="2019-10-23" tags="architecture, devops, tech" excerpt="Over the past four years, the Heroku Runtime team has transitioned from occasional, manual deployments to continuous, automated deployments. Changes are now rolled out globally within a few hours of merging any change—without any human intervention. It's been an overwhelmingly po" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997829.jpg" title="Is Amazon Unstoppable?" link="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/21/is-amazon-unstoppable/amp" domain="newyorker.com" date="2019-10-23" tags="amazon, history, news, politics, tech" excerpt="Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back, Charles Duhigg writes." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997831.png" title="Delta: A Data Synchronization and Enrichment Platform" link="https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/delta-a-data-synchronization-and-enrichment-platform-e82c36a79aee" domain="medium.com" date="2019-10-23" tags="architecture, data, tech" excerpt="Delta is an eventual consistent, event driven, data synchronization and enrichment platform built at Netflix." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997832.png" title="Product Management Digest from API Days - rosebytespaint - Medium" link="https://medium.com/@rosebytespaint/product-management-digest-from-api-days-1101ef636430" domain="medium.com" date="2019-10-23" tags="product, tech" excerpt="Last month, the APIDays conference took place in Melbourne. The conference was about the shifting API landscape. And just like every Platform /API Product Manager would be keen to understand API…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997835.png" title="Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Ope" link="https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-mantis-a-platform-for-building-cost-effective-realtime-operations-focused-5b8ff387813a" domain="medium.com" date="2019-10-23" tags="architecture, devops, tech" excerpt="Learn more about how Mantis provides on-demand data fetching, aggressive data reuse, and native autoscaling to help you minimize the costs of observing microservices without compromising on required a" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997808.jpg" title="The technology behind preview photos" link="https://engineering.fb.com/android/the-technology-behind-preview-photos" domain="engineering.fb.com" date="2019-10-21" tags="algorithms, facebook, tech" excerpt="Visit the post for more." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997753.png" title="Unraveling The JPEG" link="https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg" domain="parametric.press" date="2019-10-21" tags="algorithms, tech" excerpt="JPEG images are everywhere in our digital lives, but behind the veil of familiarity lie algorithms that remove details that are imperceptible to the human eye. This produces the highest visual quality with the smallest file size—but what does that look like? Let's see what our ey" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997652.jpg" title="The Time Value of Shipping - The Black Box of Product Management" link="https://blackboxofpm.com/the-time-value-of-shipping-6deaf8d7d565" domain="blackboxofpm.com" date="2019-10-21" tags="product, tech" excerpt="Shipping is a Feature is a core principle for product managers. It proposes that you’ll never be able to build a perfect product, so you need to learn how and when to ship your imperfect one, because…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/47/images/1055997818.webp" title="\"The uncomfortable world of constant discovery\" or \"The difference between" link="https://www.defmyfunc.com/2019-06-12_the_uncomfortable_world_of_constan_discovery" domain="defmyfunc.com" date="2019-10-21" tags="product, tech" excerpt="A look at the differences between 'Product' teams and 'Delivery' teams" >}}