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Bookmarks from 2019

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:34:53 +0000

124 bookmarks from 2019

Is Amazon Unstoppable?

Saved on 2019-10-23 · newyorker.com

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back, Charles Duhigg writes.

amazon history news politics tech

Delta: A Data Synchronization and Enrichment Platform

Saved on 2019-10-23 · medium.com

Delta is an eventual consistent, event driven, data synchronization and enrichment platform built at Netflix.

architecture data tech

Product Management Digest from API Days - rosebytespaint - Medium

Saved on 2019-10-23 · medium.com

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…

product tech

Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Ope

Saved on 2019-10-23 · medium.com

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

architecture devops tech

The technology behind preview photos

Saved on 2019-10-21 · engineering.fb.com

Visit the post for more.

algorithms facebook tech

Unraveling The JPEG

Saved on 2019-10-21 · parametric.press

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

algorithms tech

The Time Value of Shipping - The Black Box of Product Management

Saved on 2019-10-21 · blackboxofpm.com

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…

product tech

"The uncomfortable world of constant discovery" or "The difference between

Saved on 2019-10-21 · defmyfunc.com

A look at the differences between 'Product' teams and 'Delivery' teams

product tech

How LinkedIn customizes Apache Kafka for 7 trillion messages per day | Link

Saved on 2019-10-21 · engineering.linkedin.com

architecture data tech

The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's un

Saved on 2019-10-21 · linkedin.com

I joined LinkedIn about six years ago at a particularly interesting time. We were just beginning to run up against the limits of our monolithic, centralized database and needed to start the transition to a portfolio of specialized distributed systems. This has been an interesting

data database distributed systems tech

Big Data Processing at Spotify: The Road to Scio (Part 1) | Labs

Saved on 2019-10-21 · engineering.atspotify.com

This is the first part of a 2 part blog series. In this series we will talk about , a Scala API for and , and how we built the majority of our new data pipelines on Google Cloud with Scio.

architecture data tech

Capturing data pipeline errors functionally with Writer Monads | ThoughtWor

Saved on 2019-10-21 · thoughtworks.com

As businesses grapple with vast quantities of data, emerging from batch-based and streaming sources, it’s truly exciting to see the dominant data processing frameworks embrace the Kappa Architecture, that unifies batch and stream processing. With Kappa Architecture, the batch pro

architecture code data tech thoughtworks

The State of Cryptocurrency Mining - The Sia Blog

Saved on 2019-10-16 · blog.sia.tech

For those new to the blog, I am the lead developer of Sia, a blockchain based cloud storage platform. About a year ago, myself and some members of the Sia team started Obelisk, a cryptocurrency ASIC…

blockchain finance tech

7 Things I Learnt from 10 Conversations About Recognition

Saved on 2019-10-15 · medium.com

If you aren’t familiar with Officevibe check them out, but essentially it’s a tool that uses an ongoing survey with a randomised set of questions. Results are then grouped into 10 metrics…

career leadership psychology

Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap

Saved on 2019-10-13 · blog.twitch.tv

code tech

Chernobyl DevOps: Software Engineering, Disaster Management, and Observability

Saved on 2019-10-08 · medium.com

Or at least, that’s the story that operators working for FirstEnergy in a power substation in Wadsworth, Ohio, just a few miles southwest of Akron, had in front of them. All systems seemed…

devops history news politics science tech

Changing Lanes - Becoming a Platform Product Manager - Mind the Product

Saved on 2019-10-06 · mindtheproduct.com

I’m a product manager for a content management system that runs some of the most-visited websites in the world. Our team reports to the CTO, and we sit within the engineering arm of the organization. Prior to this I’d had a year’s product experience at a customer-facing SaaS comp

product tech

Product management in infrastructure engineering.

Saved on 2019-10-06 · lethain.com

Recently a bunch of teams I work with have turned the corner, having paid down technical debt to a long-term sustainable level. The future unfurls with possibility. Many of the infrastructure engineer teams I’ve been a part of have struggled to make the transition from maintenanc

product tech

Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers

Saved on 2019-10-06 · hbr.org

To really win their loyalty, forget the bells and whistles and just solve their problems.

product tech

Testing in Production: the hard parts - Cindy Sridharan - Medium

Saved on 2019-09-30 · medium.com

There’s a fair bit of chatter about the virtues of testing in production these days. I’ve myself written about this topic over a year ago. This post isn’t so much of an argument as to why one should…

tech testing

Testing in Production, the safe way - Cindy Sridharan - Medium

Saved on 2019-09-30 · medium.com

In this post, I hope to explore different forms of “testing in production”, when each form of testing is the most beneficial as well as how to test services in production in a safe way. However…

devops product programming tech

Accelerate - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organisations

Saved on 2019-09-26 · mattbutton.com

I first read Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim back in 2018 when it was a hot topic in the office; only an hour or two would go by between overhearing somebody talk about it, internal blog posts were being written, and we’d receive emails about following the fin

agile leadership management product productivity tech

Pando: Move fast, break things: The sad story of Platform, Facebook’s gigan

Saved on 2019-09-26 · pando.com

Democratizing career progression

history tech

Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech - The Glowforg

Saved on 2019-09-25 · blog.glowforge.com

Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.

career tech

The problem with ‘5 whys’

Saved on 2019-09-25 · qualitysafety.bmj.com

‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive problems that seem to resist solution. The ‘5 whys’ technique is one of the mo

devops tech

Bookmarks from 2019

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:34:53 +0000

124 bookmarks from 2019

Six Common Traps that Undermine Strategic Product Management [Mind the Product]

Saved on 2019-09-23 · a-product-manager.blogspot.com

Product management blog that summarizes product manager posts, news and articles from around the web.

product

Bot Ross: Teaching a Computer to Paint

Saved on 2019-09-23 · medium.com

I am not, I will admit, a terribly good artist. Not with a brush and paint at least. I can make a credible effort with a pen or pencil, provided you’re not after something tricky like human hands or…

How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic

Saved on 2019-09-23 · brandur.org

A dive into the mechanics that allow Postgres to provide strong atomic guarantees despite the chaotic entropy of production.

database tech

Are Cats Liquid? - Tenderly

Saved on 2019-09-21 · medium.com

Most contemporary physicists are concerned with technical, big-picture questions: Why do neutrinos have mass when the Standard Model says that they shouldn’t? Why are quantum field theory and general…

funny

Open Banking in the UK: what's happened so far | 11:FS Pulse

Saved on 2019-09-14 · pulse.11fs.com

Since January 2018, we have heard a lot about Open Banking, the regulation that has released the financial data of consumers from the banks’ ownership and into the hands of consumers. The short answer is “Yes, a lot has changed.” It took us over a century to build the mess that w

finance product tech

8 Things Leaders Do That Make Employees Quit

Saved on 2019-09-13 · hbr.org

They’re some of the most expensive mistakes you can make.

career

Liberating Structures - Introduction

Saved on 2019-09-09 · liberatingstructures.com

liberating structures, social invention.net, microstructures, disruptive innovation, behavior change, collaboration, social invention, diffusion of innovation, strategy, transformation, heuristics, complexity science, emergence

agile tech

You should not run your mail server because mail is hard - poolp.org

Saved on 2019-09-09 · poolp.org

TL;DR: - Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it - Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing - Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for non

tech

Ten Principles for Growth as an Engineer - Dan Heller - Medium

Saved on 2019-09-09 · medium.com

A brief list of practices for maturing as a software engineer.

career tech

How to do a code review | eng-practices

Saved on 2019-09-08 · google.github.io

Google’s Engineering Practices documentation

code google tech

The True Cost of Commuting

Saved on 2019-08-30 · mrmoneymustache.com

It was a beautiful evening in my neighborhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Stree…

cars

I test in prod – Increment: Testing

Saved on 2019-08-29 · qa.increment.com

Testing in production is a superpower. It’s our inability to acknowledge it that’s the trouble.

architecture tech testing

How to Build Good Software

Saved on 2019-08-29 · knowledge.csc.gov.sg

programming tech

Agile Software Guide

Saved on 2019-08-29 · martinfowler.com

Agile software development is an approach designed to build software for uncertain and changing needs.

tech thoughtworks

An introduction to innersource | GitHub Resources

Saved on 2019-08-26 · resources.github.com

Organizations worldwide are incorporating open source methodologies into the way they build and ship their own software.

programming tech

Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository | July 2

Saved on 2019-08-26 · cacm.acm.org

google history tech

'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?

Saved on 2019-08-20 · theguardian.com

You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis

politics science

You Can’t Fix Unethical Design by Yourself - Modus

Saved on 2019-08-16 · modus.medium.com

Like the climate emergency, unethical design won’t be solved with individual action alone. We need a radical shift in how the industry operates and educates, and regulatory bodies with power.

psychology tech

How to Test Node.js Apps using Mocha, Chai, and SinonJS

Saved on 2019-08-16 · scotch.io

Learn how to test Node.js applications with Mocha, Chai, and SinonJS.

code javascript programming tech testing

Growth modeling for developers | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2019-08-14 · thoughtworks.com

For anybody beginning a career as a software developer, we often make assumptions about how to succeed — assumptions that often turn out to be hopelessly wrong. As I've discovered over the last year, growth opportunities present themselves in all sorts of surprising ways, and I w

career tech

How to Have a Happy Marriage - 20 Tips for a Happy Marriage

Saved on 2019-08-12 · thecut.com

Remember that you chose to love this person.

psychology

A Year Of Running Kubernetes at MYOB, And The Importance Of Empathy.

Saved on 2019-08-08 · medium.com

In a year, we had 100 production apps across 26 tribes running on our cluster; we drove ISO 27001 compliance across 12 products, and taught 200 developers how to productionize software.

aws tech

Ronald Fisher, a Bad Cup of Tea, and the Birth of Modern Statistics | Science History Institute

Saved on 2019-08-08 · sciencehistory.org

A lesson in humility begets a scientific revolution.

history

Brewer's CAP Theorem

Saved on 2019-08-07 · julianbrowne.com

An explanation of Eric Brewer’s CAP theorem, which says you cannot have more than two of Consistency, Availability and Partition-tolerance in web-based distributed systems.

architecture tech

Why I love Trunk Based Development (or pushing straight to master)

Saved on 2019-08-05 · medium.com

Teams that are using short-lived feature branches would usually benefit from aiming to work directly on master.

programming tech

Bookmarks from 2019

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:34:53 +0000

124 bookmarks from 2019

Sticky Love — Choosing Between Physical Boards and Online Tools

Saved on 2019-08-05 · medium.com

The physical board vs. online tool debate has been a staple of my career for 5–8 years now. It changes form occasionally, and with each year there are new twists, but for the most part it has…

agile product tech

How Dark deploys code in 50ms - Darklang - Medium

Saved on 2019-08-01 · medium.com

Speed of developer iteration is the single most important factor in how quickly a technology company can move. Unfortunately, modern applications work against us: our systems are required to be live…

devops programming tech

Why Generics? - The Go Programming Language

Saved on 2019-08-01 · blog.golang.org

Why should we add generics to Go, and what might they look like?

code golang programming tech

Sierra Web Design, Inc

Saved on 2019-08-01 · lahey.com

code maths programming tech

Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder

Saved on 2019-08-01 · charity.wtf

Last night I was out with a dear friend who has been an engineering manager for a year now, and by two drinks in I was rattling off a long list things I always say to newer engineering managers. Th…

career leadership tech

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Saved on 2019-08-01 · charity.wtf

Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thin…

career leadership tech

The Definition of a Tech Lead

Saved on 2019-07-31 · thekua.com

Our industry is infamous for confusing terms. Roles in software development are a good example. Titles like Architect, Tech Lead, Team Lead and Engineering Manager ... Read more

career leadership tech thoughtworks

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale

Saved on 2019-07-27 · dougseven.com

In the first 45-minutes the market was open the faulty software deployment sent millions of child orders into the market resulting in 4 million transactions against 154 stocks for more than 397 mil…

devops tech

Fast Software, the Best Software

Saved on 2019-07-27 · craigmod.com

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

tech

Hypothesis Driven UX

Saved on 2019-07-26 · medium.com

Hypothesis Driven UX In this article I aim to provide a high-level process on how hypothesis driven UX can be applied during the research phase of your design process. Hypothesis driven UX stems from …

design product tech

Move Fast and Fix Things

Saved on 2019-07-26 · github.blog

Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…

architecture tech

Monitoring Check Smells | Benji's Blog -

Saved on 2019-07-26 · benjiweber.co.uk

I have become increasingly convinced that there is little difference between monitoring and testing. Often we can run our automated tests against a production system with only a little effort. We are used to listening to our automated tests for feedback about our software in the

architecture tech testing

Should We Stop Keeping Pets?

Saved on 2019-07-25 · theguardian.com

Research into animals’ emotional lives has cast doubt on the ethics of petkeeping.

psychology science

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence

Saved on 2019-07-25 · waitbutwhy.com

Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.

history science tech ai

How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012

Saved on 2019-07-23 · tarynpivots.com

Warning: This post is long. While working through this massive server upgrade/migration process, tears were shed, many cuss words were said, along with a general feeling of frustration, which ultimately culminated into extreme happiness once the migration was completed. The scale

architecture data database sql stories

bliki: Integration Database

Saved on 2019-07-23 · martinfowler.com

An integration database is a data store for multiple applications, thus integrating them through data storage. This leads to excessive coupling that makes change risky and expensive.

tech thoughtworks

On GraphQL Schema Stitching & API Gateways - Marc-André Giroux - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-23 · medium.com

I’ve been thinking a lot on GraphQL “Schema Stitching” these days. At its core, Schema Stitching is the art of composing multiple GraphQL Schemas into one GraphQL Schema. As you can imagine, this can…

architecture tech

On software quality

Saved on 2019-07-23 · linkedin.com

What do we really need in order to develop a self-driving car? My colleague Felix posted recently an excellent article about what it really takes to be a self-driving car engineer. I want to dig deeper into the first point of that article about solid software engineering.

architecture programming tech

Council Post: Facebook's Libra: Potential To Increase Demand For Bitcoin

Saved on 2019-07-23 · forbes.com

Facebook recently announced its planned 2020 launch of a cryptocurrency it calls Libra.

blockchain tech

When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

Saved on 2019-07-23 · slack.engineering

Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite your code from scratch, and that’s good advice. Time spent rewriting something that already works is time that won’t be spent making our customers working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. And running code k

javascript programming tech

The Science of Why You Hate Your Open Office - Fast Company - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-23 · medium.com

The backlash against the dreaded open office plan has been brewing for many years. Not without good reason: Many employees struggle to focus amid the endless distractions and noise that are…

productivity

How to Assess Product Management Skills and Competencies?

Saved on 2019-07-22 · medium.com

Many CEOs and technology leaders believe that product managers need to be among the strongest talent in the company because innovative products provide competitive advantage and drive future growth…

product tech

Opinion | Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others

Saved on 2019-07-19 · mobile.nytimes.com

It’s about listening, empathy and having more women.

leadership

Functional Programming Isn't the Answer – John A De Goes

Saved on 2019-07-19 · degoes.net

Functional programming is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

code programming tech

Serverless Best Practices - Paul Johnston - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-19 · medium.com

Within the community we’ve been debating the best practices for many years, but there are a few that have been relatively accepted for most of that time. Most serverless practitioners who subscribe…

aws cloud tech

Bookmarks from 2019

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:34:53 +0000

124 bookmarks from 2019

Serverless is a Doctrine, not a Technology - Paul Johnston - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-19 · medium.com

I have spent the last few years in the serverless community trying to figure out how to help other people understand what it means to “go serverless”. For me in recent months talking about serverless…

aws cloud tech

Productive Rage - I didn't understand why people struggled with (.NET's) as

Saved on 2019-07-19 · productiverage.com

Long story short (I know that some readers love a TL;DR), I have almost always worked with async/await in C# projects where it's been async from top-to-bottom and so I've rarely tried to start..

programming tech dotnet

Amazon's Build System

Saved on 2019-07-19 · gist.github.com

Amazon's Build System. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

aws programming tech

Notes on Escaping the Build Trap

Saved on 2019-07-18 · lethain.com

Last year while thinking about product management in infrastructure I read Cagan’s Inspired, which I thought was a very solid book. I just finished reading Perri’s Escaping the Build Trap, which is similarly excellent, and I’ve written up some notes.

product tech

You are never too old to have a mentor - Victoria MacLennan - Medium

Saved on 2019-07-18 · medium.com

One of my standard interview questions is to ask whether a candidate has a mentor. A young woman I met recently answered that she had one but no longer needs a mentor — she knows everything she needs…

career leadership

Aurora Serverless: The Good, the Bad and the Scalable - Jeremy Daly

Saved on 2019-07-16 · jeremydaly.com

Take a deep dive into the pros and cons of Amazon's new Aurora Serverless service and find out if it's right for you and your company's needs and budget.

database tech

Some thoughts on GraphQL vs. BFF

Saved on 2019-07-16 · philcalcado.com

architecture tech

Clean Coder Blog

Saved on 2019-07-15 · blog.cleancoder.com

code programming tech

Versioning limitations in .NET

Saved on 2019-07-15 · codeblog.jonskeet.uk

This is a blog post I’ve intended to write for a very long time. (Other blog posts in that category include a recipe for tiramisu ice cream, and “knights and allies”.) It’s …

code programming tech

Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once - The GitHub Blog

Saved on 2019-07-15 · github.blog

Today we’re releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…

code product programming tech

Opening up our Atlassian Term Sheet

Saved on 2019-07-15 · atlassian.com

The traditional M&A process is broken and favors large companies. So, we're leveling the playing field by releasing our Term Sheet for anyone to see.

tech

What You Should Never Ask Your Customers - Dave Bailey

Saved on 2019-07-15 · medium.dave-bailey.com

Learn the right questions to ask customer about your product, and the questions you should avoid at all costs.

product tech

Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3

Saved on 2019-07-14 · joelonsoftware.com

This is part one of the text of a talk delivered to the Yale Computer Science department on November 28. The rest of the talk will be published tomorrow and Wednesday. I graduated with a B.S. in Co…

programming tech

What’s Next in Computing?

Saved on 2019-07-14 · medium.com

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial…

finance tech ai

Stop Mistaking Shared Trauma for Compatibility - Human Parts

Saved on 2019-07-12 · medium.com

Where others might view someone’s unaddressed trauma as a red flag, a similarly traumatized person would see the potential risks as being worth the camaraderie that comes with them.

health

Shopify and the Power of Platforms

Saved on 2019-07-11 · stratechery.com

It is all but impossible to beat an Aggregator head-on, as Walmart is trying to do with Amazon. The solution instead is to build a platform like Shopify.

amazon business

How to be an awesome mentee: a checklist - Mentorloop Mentoring Software

Saved on 2019-07-10 · mentorloop.com

Ready to build a great mentoring relationship? Here's a checklist that will help you be an awesome mentee.

career leadership learning

25 Mentorship Questions to Ask Your Mentor or Mentee - Mentorloop

Saved on 2019-07-10 · mentorloop.com

Here's a list of engaging mentorship questions to ask your mentor, help you dive deeper, and add some structure to your meetings.

career leadership learning

Great products do less, but better - UX Collective

Saved on 2019-07-09 · uxdesign.cc

A few years later, the team behind the product comes to the conclusion it has to do more. Features are added, new use cases are covered, and functionality becomes more sophisticated. That happens for…

product

Steve Blank Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work – the Minimal Viable Product

Saved on 2019-07-04 · steveblank.com

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.” Unfor…

product

The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act - Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik

Saved on 2019-07-04 · kaushik.net

Companies, small or large, fail to iterate fast enough leading to poor business results. Lean Analytics Cycle is a structured process to avoid that fate!

agile product

From design patterns to category theory

Saved on 2019-06-15 · blog.ploeh.dk

How do you design good abstractions? By using abstractions that already exist.

programming tech

The Secret History of Women in Coding

Saved on 2019-04-11 · nytimes.com

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

history programming stories

The Ultimate Guide to Personal Productivity Methods

Saved on 2019-04-11 · doist.com

You don't need a to-do list, you need a system you can trust.

productivity