Bookmarks from 2019
124 bookmarks from 2019
Delta: A Data Synchronization and Enrichment Platform
Delta is an eventual consistent, event driven, data synchronization and enrichment platform built at Netflix.
Product Management Digest from API Days - rosebytespaint - Medium
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…
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Ope
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
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Unraveling The JPEG
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
The Time Value of Shipping - The Black Box of Product Management
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…
"The uncomfortable world of constant discovery" or "The difference between
A look at the differences between 'Product' teams and 'Delivery' teams
The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's un
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
Big Data Processing at Spotify: The Road to Scio (Part 1) | Labs
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.
Capturing data pipeline errors functionally with Writer Monads | ThoughtWor
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
The State of Cryptocurrency Mining - The Sia Blog
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…
7 Things I Learnt from 10 Conversations About Recognition
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…
Chernobyl DevOps: Software Engineering, Disaster Management, and Observability
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…
Changing Lanes - Becoming a Platform Product Manager - Mind the Product
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 management in infrastructure engineering.
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
Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers
To really win their loyalty, forget the bells and whistles and just solve their problems.
Testing in Production: the hard parts - Cindy Sridharan - Medium
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…
Testing in Production, the safe way - Cindy Sridharan - Medium
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…
Accelerate - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organisations
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
Pando: Move fast, break things: The sad story of Platform, Facebook’s gigan
Democratizing career progression
Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech - The Glowforg
Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.
The problem with ‘5 whys’
‘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