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Bookmarks from 2020

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:56:00 +0000

205 bookmarks from 2020

Managing technical quality in a codebase.

Saved on 2020-10-29 · lethain.com

If there’s one thing that engineers, engineering managers, and technology executives are likely to agree on, it’s that there’s a crisis of technical quality. One diagnosis and cure is easy to identify: our engineers aren’t prioritizing quality, and we need to hire better engineer

leadership product tech

Self-service database provisioning with Octopus Runbooks and Redgate SQL Cl

Saved on 2020-10-29 · octopus.com

A discussion about database provisioning for dev and test, including a walk-through of Redgate SQL Clone and Octopus Runbooks

code data database sql tech

‘All I wanted to do was get into bed and pull the covers over my head.’ | b

Saved on 2020-10-28 · medium.com

One in five people are affected by mental health challenges each year. And while the world continues to experience the unprecedented impact of the global health emergency due to COVID-19, millions…

health psychology

What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms

Saved on 2020-10-28 · martinfowler.com

These days everyone is building a 'platform' to speed up delivery of digital products. But what makes an effective digital platform?

architecture product tech

Build better platform products. Four tips to help you embed great… | by Cla

Saved on 2020-10-28 · medium.com

In 2018, I came across Evan Bottcher’s article What I Talk About When I Talk About Platform. I was coaching a company’s platform teams, which were looking to apply Agile principles and practices to…

product tech

When should you hire your first Product Manager? - Product and Systems

Saved on 2020-10-28 · productandsystems.substack.com

Building a Product Management practice (1/3): In this first post of the series I will share when to hire and what to look for in your first PM

product tech

Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw | WIRED

Saved on 2020-10-27 · wired.com

The Checkm8 vulnerability that exposed years of iPhones to jailbreaking has finally been exploited in Macs as well.

apple security tech

The history of the BMW M logo and its colors | BMW.com

Saved on 2020-10-27 · bmw-m.com

The logo of BMW M. The distinctive BMW M logo with the three stripes attached to the M is recognised by petrolheads worldwide. But who invented it? Here is the answer.

cars

New Chrome 0-day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now

Saved on 2020-10-27 · thehackernews.com

Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 released to patch several security high-severity issues, including a zero-day vulnerability.

google security tech

Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now

Saved on 2020-10-27 · arstechnica.com

If you have Chromium versions of Nano Adblocker or Nano Defender, pay attention.

google security tech

Study shows which messengers leak your data, drain your battery, and more |

Saved on 2020-10-27 · arstechnica.com

Link previews provide convenience. They can also compromise privacy or security.

apple google product tech

Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head - Th

Saved on 2020-10-26 · nytimes.com

They appear to be a fourth pair of large salivary glands, tucked into the space where the nasal cavity meets the throat.

health science

How prioritisation has guided my personal approach to mental wellbeing | by

Saved on 2020-10-26 · medium.com

Prioritisation is one of those processes that is simple to understand but difficult to action. At its heart, prioritisation involves understanding the work you have to do and choosing to focus on the…

psychology tech

Play the long game when learning to code. - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-10-26 · stackoverflow.blog

career programming tech

The untold history of macOS System Preferences

Saved on 2020-10-25 · arun.is

System Preferences may not be the most exciting part of the Mac, but by looking through its evolution over the decades, we'll see that it holds some secrets and fun easter eggs.

tech

What I learned from hiring hundreds of engineers can help you land your nex

Saved on 2020-10-25 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

Same Stats, Different Graphs

Saved on 2020-10-25 · autodesk.com

AUTODESK RESEARCH | Why graphical representation and visualization are so important to understand statistical data.

data tech

How Flash games shaped the video game industry

Saved on 2020-10-25 · flashgamehistory.com

Flash is dead. But the influence of Flash games on modern gameplay is inescapable.

gaming tech

Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years. Here’s why.

Saved on 2020-10-25 · diff.wikimedia.org

This is the first blog in a series about desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has remained a critical and widely-used resource for knowledge across the world for the past two decades…

tech

Why do microservices need an API Gateway? - DEV

Saved on 2020-10-25 · dev.to

API Gateways are becoming increasingly popular with the microservice architecture. Recently, Google a...

architecture programming tech

Subscription or no subscription? That is not the question. – iA

Saved on 2020-10-25 · ia.net

Companies selling apps via subscriptions use drama to sell: "Either subscription or we die.”

product tech business

Motoko, a programming language for building directly on the internet - Stac

Saved on 2020-10-25 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

Weighing Network-based Competitive Advantages | by Damon Callaghan | ECP In

Saved on 2020-10-14 · medium.com

Networks are one of the most powerful competitive advantages a business can possess. Strong network effects make it difficult for businesses to be replicated, enabling long-term pricing power…

business tech

Xero, a Beautiful Business Model. Inside Xero’s Competitive Advantage | by

Saved on 2020-10-14 · medium.com

At ECP, we continually assess the quality and the sustainability of our investments to evaluate the strength of their competitive advantage through time. Xero is a notable portfolio company which…

business tech

How Complex Systems Fail

Saved on 2020-10-12 · how.complexsystems.fail

architecture distributed systems tech

Bookmarks from 2020

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205 bookmarks from 2020

Revolutionizing Money Movements at Scale with Strong Data Consistency | Ube

Saved on 2020-10-12 · eng.uber.com

While we expand to multiple lines of businesses, and strategize the next best, the engineers in Uber Money also thrive on building the next generation’s Payments Platform which extends Uber’s growth. In this blog, we introduce you to this platform and provide insights into our le

architecture tech

VRIO Framework Overview: Step-By-Step, Template & Examples

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

Explore the VRIO Framework to achieve sustained competitive advantage. Get the full overview with a step-by-step guide, real-world examples, and a free template.

business product tech

Value Disciplines Model & Your Competitive Advantage

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

We explain the Value Discipline Model, diving into Customer Intimacy Strategy, Product Leadership Strategy & Operational Excellence Value Disciplines!

business product tech

How to Implement the Balanced Scorecard (2019 Update)

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

Discover the purpose of a balanced scorecard framework, its pros and cons, and how to implement it the right way to hit strategic goals.

business product tech

Maslow's Hierarchy as a Business Framework

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

There are a lot of business frameworks in the world. We explain why Maslow's Hierarchy of needs is actually one of the best business frameworks out there!

business product tech

What Is Stakeholder Theory? Benefits, Challenges & Application

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

What is Stakeholder Theory? Explore its benefits, challenges and step-by-step guide to implement it. Grab your free template for efficient stakeholder management!

business product tech

The Ansoff Matrix: 4 Growth Strategies Explained (With Examples)

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

Discover key elements of the Ansoff Matrix, its pros & cons, and how to use it in your strategic planning process.

business product tech

Three Horizons Framework To Help You Grow (With Template)

Saved on 2020-10-12 · cascade.app

Learn McKinsey's Three Horizons Framework, how to apply it with real-life examples, and get a FREE template to boost your company’s growth.

business product tech

Why Our Leaders Fail Us and Then Save Us: The Preventable Problem Paradox |

Saved on 2020-10-08 · medium.com

Have you ever wondered why a smart company like Facebook is also the undisputed World Champion of Self-Inflicted Debacles? Or, why Google falls prey to avoidable mistakes — across its products…

leadership psychology

The Supreme Court hears Oracle v. Google tomorrow—here’s what’s at stake |

Saved on 2020-10-08 · arstechnica.com

The Supreme Court could decide whether APIs can be copyrighted.

politics programming tech

Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in sp

Saved on 2020-10-07 · arstechnica.com

The updates don’t come every spring and fall, but space operating systems keep evolving.

science tech

The New New Product Development Game

Saved on 2020-10-07 · hbr.org

In today’s fast-paced, fiercely competitive world of commercial new product development, speed and flexibility are essential. Companies are increasingly realizing that the old, sequential approach to developing new products simply won’t get the job done. Instead, companies in Jap

product tech

Facebook leaks show Mark Zuckerberg defending his decisions to angry employ

Saved on 2020-10-06 · theverge.com

The Verge obtained leaked audio of internal meetings

facebook politics tech

How I Structured Engineering Teams at LinkedIn and AdMob for Success | Firs

Saved on 2020-10-01 · firstround.com

LinkedIn’s SVP of Engineering shares the team structure and mindset that clinched its $2.5B IPO.

leadership product tech

Can one person run an open source project alone? - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-09-30 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

What is the Value of Browser Diversity? - daverupert.com

Saved on 2020-09-30 · daverupert.com

In May 2019 I attended a talk by Mike Taylor who works on webcompat at Mozilla. Mike told the sordid story of window.event, a non-standard IE invention that was replicated in Konqueror, which showed up in Webkit, which stuck around in Blink, and was now Mike’s problem in Firefox.

programming tech

If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread? - Stack Overflow B

Saved on 2020-09-30 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech

Neural networks could help computers code themselves: Do we still need huma

Saved on 2020-09-30 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech ai

Why Time Management Won't Solve Your Time Problems

Saved on 2020-09-28 · blog.doist.com

Having more time is like earning more money — the more you have, the more you want to spend. Here's a different way to think about it...

career productivity psychology

Improve Your Focus and Find Your Calling by Working in Seasons - Ambition &

Saved on 2020-09-28 · blog.doist.com

The rest of your life is a long time – start working in seasons instead.

career productivity psychology

The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Long-Term Goals

Saved on 2020-09-28 · blog.doist.com

And 3 strategies for achieving your long-term goals anyway, according to science

productivity psychology

Why senior engineers get nothing done | Swizec Teller

Saved on 2020-09-23 · swizec.com

You start a new job and it's amazing. Code all day, clear objectives, easy guidelines, ship a bunch of features be a hero. Then something happens and suddenly you get nothing done. 🤔

leadership tech

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Saved on 2020-09-23 · paulgraham.com

leadership productivity tech

How to build a documentation culture | by James Scott | The Startup | Mediu

Saved on 2020-09-22 · medium.com

Most programmers don’t like writing documentation, it’s just a fact. In some of the engineering teams I’ve worked in it’s often felt like the annoying but necessary task that is left until the last…

productivity tech

Rewriting the Technical Interview

Saved on 2020-09-22 · aphyr.com

career code tech

Bookmarks from 2020

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205 bookmarks from 2020

Discovery - Judgement | Silicon Valley Product Group

Saved on 2020-09-18 · svpg.com

To continue with the series on common sources of confusion regarding product discovery, in this article I want to talk about the critical role of judgement in product discovery. This may in fact be the single most common confusion I encounter. I think the source of the issue is

product tech

Combining the Best of AWS EventBridge and AWS Kinesis | by John Gilbert | M

Saved on 2020-09-18 · medium.com

I have been using AWS Kinesis extensively and effectively, with AWS Lambda, since 2015. I am a big fan. Now we have another great alternative, AWS EventBridge. Each has its strengths and weaknesses…

architecture aws code tech

How to keep the plates spinning in software development | by Mike Reid | Hu

Saved on 2020-09-18 · medium.com

Imagine you have seven plates spinning on top of sticks in front of you. Each is precious and it’s up to you to keep them from toppling over. The last thing you want is a floor full of broken plates…

agile leadership tech

If Management Isn’t A Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t A Demotion – charit

Saved on 2020-09-18 · charity.wtf

I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets: (I originally titled this arti…

career leadership psychology tech

Intercom on Product: The principles behind how we build | Inside Intercom

Saved on 2020-09-18 · intercom.com

Des Traynor and Paul Adams discuss the principles we use, such as "Start with the problem" and "Ship to learn", that help to guide us as we build product.

product tech

A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?

Saved on 2020-09-11 · theguardian.com

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace

tech ai

IO Block Size for SQL Server, Disk Block Size - Pure Storage

Saved on 2020-09-11 · blog.purestorage.com

Check out this Pure Storage post to understand a bit more about SQL Server IO block sizes, as well as backups and restores.

database sql tech

Security September: Escaping CodeBuild - The compromise that wasn't – One C

Saved on 2020-09-11 · onecloudplease.com

Aidan pushes the boundaries of CodeBuild and comes away pleasantly surprised. This is the second of a 5-part series on AWS exploits and similar findings discovered through the course of 2020.

aws code security tech

How To Master Your Goals With The Ulysses Pact

Saved on 2020-09-03 · blog.trello.com

Struggling to achieve your long-term goals? Banish procrastination once and for all by holding yourself accountable with the Ulysses pact.

productivity

The magic ingredient that improves workshop collaboration | by Will Lester

Saved on 2020-09-01 · medium.com

I love working collaboratively. I get a real buzz out of getting a group together, grappling tricky problems and bouncing around ideas. At its best, collaboration can be an energising experience. But…

agile design leadership tech

Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture

Saved on 2020-09-01 · uber.com

Recently there has been substantial discussion around the downsides of service oriented architectures and microservice architectures in particular. While only a few years ago, many people readily adopted microservice architectures due to the numerous benefits they provide such as

architecture microservices tech

If software architects' soft skills fail, so does the business

Saved on 2020-09-01 · searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com

Mark Richards and Neal Ford, authors of 'Fundamentals of Software Architecture,' share real-life examples of why architects must communicate well, and explain how to do it.

architecture career leadership tech

Deep Work: The Complete Guide (Including a Step-by-Step Checklist)

Saved on 2020-08-31 · doist.com

How to master the #1 job skill that will never be obsolete

productivity

Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Innovation on the Edge

Saved on 2020-08-31 · edgeperspectives.typepad.com

I’ve played on the edge throughout most of my professional career, whether it was doing deals in the Sultanate of Oman back in the 1970s, building a start-up around a new technology called the microprocessor in 1980, building a new...

business product tech

Products are not Platforms | Kislay Verma

Saved on 2020-08-31 · kislayverma.com

Learning to distinguish between products and platforms

architecture product tech

Being Fast or Getting Faster? (aka Build Momentum, not Velocity) | Kislay V

Saved on 2020-08-31 · kislayverma.com

Setting the organization's goal to being faster over time ids better than just trying to be fast right now

architecture product tech

The Commitment Inventory: Get More Done By Saying "No"

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Make sure every area of your life gets the time and energy it deserves

productivity

The Weekly Review: A Productivity Ritual to Get More Done

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

10x your productivity with just one hour a week

productivity

OKRs: A Guide to Data-Driven Goal Setting for Individuals and Teams

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Set rigorous goals that align big-picture priorities with day-to-day actions

business productivity

The Medium Method: The Best of Analog & Digital Productivity Combined

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Want to be more productive? Don't go (completely) paperless

productivity

Systemist: Todoist's Founder's Personal Productivity Workflow

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Follow Todoist's founder's personal productivity system

productivity

Avoid the "Urgency Trap" with the Eisenhower Matrix

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Avoid the "Urgency Trap" with Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous prioritization framework

productivity

The Pomodoro Technique – Why It Works & How To Do It

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Beat procrastination and improve your focus one pomodoro at a time

productivity

What Is Eat the Frog? A Dead Simple System for Productivity Minimalists

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning

productivity

So You Want to GTD? Your Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Things Done

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

Systematize the clutter in your brain and get things done

productivity

Bookmarks from 2020

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205 bookmarks from 2020

The Complete Guide to Time Blocking

Saved on 2020-08-31 · todoist.com

...and its cousins task batching and day theming. Control your schedule so it doesn't control you

productivity

A gRPC Example: Our experience designing and building gRPC services | Bugsn

Saved on 2020-08-31 · bugsnag.com

Blog

architecture code programming tech

Ice, water, steam: reflecting on the language of agile teams | by James Ber

Saved on 2020-08-31 · medium.com

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what we need to do to continue our journey towards world-class engineering, and perform at that level over the long term. I’ve also been thinking about how Xero’s…

agile architecture leadership tech

How can you find time to design?. 7 tips to own your time | by José Torre |

Saved on 2020-08-31 · uxdesign.cc

For the past few months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of designers online complaining about their lack of time to design. They have a packed agenda full of meetings and, if they’re lucky, they…

career productivity

Proving Your Value at Work — Why It’s So Hard and How to Do it Anyway

Saved on 2020-08-30 · doist.com

Actionable steps for making sure "out of sight" doesn't mean "out of mind"

career productivity

5 Habits for Crafting the Perfect Remote Work Day

Saved on 2020-08-30 · doist.com

The reality of working from home is rarely as rosy as it seems

career productivity

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You | by Steve Yegge

Saved on 2020-08-30 · medium.com

God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting to good use: my novels, my music, my game, and so on. But…

architecture stories tech

Emotional Agility

Saved on 2020-08-30 · hbr.org

How effective leaders manage their negative thoughts and feelings

health leadership psychology

Building domain knowledge | Janella’s blog

Saved on 2020-08-30 · blog.janella.nz

I started a new engineering role two weeks ago, after ten years at my previous company.

career psychology tech

Building greater accessibility into Facebook.com - Facebook Engineering

Saved on 2020-08-29 · engineering.fb.com

As part of our recent redesign of Facebook.com, we took advantage of recent React improvements to build accessibility into the foundation

code design facebook javascript tech

The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities · Intense Minimalism

Saved on 2020-08-29 · intenseminimalism.com

There’s a common character that can be often spotted in many online communities. It’s the “toxic influencer” (sometimes referred as “intellectual bully”). A toxic influencer is a person…

health psychology tech

Microservices Adoption in 2020 – O’Reilly

Saved on 2020-08-27 · oreilly.com

Everyone’s talking about microservices. Who’s actually doing it?

architecture microservices tech

Our Brains Struggle to Process This Much Stress | Elemental

Saved on 2020-08-26 · elemental.medium.com

We are processing an inordinate amount of stress, loss, and grief over a sustained period of time. Psychologists and experts explain what this does to our brains.

psychology

Let's build a Full-Text Search engine - Artem Krylysov

Saved on 2020-08-25 · artem.krylysov.com

code programming tech

Asynchronous Communication: What It Is & Why You Should Care About It

Saved on 2020-08-25 · doist.com

And what you can do to start implementing it, whether you're an individual contributor or a team leader.

psychology tech

Book Summary: Accelerate. Accelerate — Building and Scaling High… | by Trev

Saved on 2020-08-12 · medium.com

By making meaningful steps to introduce and improve your capabilities in continuous delivery, architecture, product & process, lean practices, and culture — you can create a profound impact on…

agile leadership management product productivity tech

The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and mor

Saved on 2020-08-12 · medium.com

As an architect, how often are you thinking about business models? If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose…

architecture tech

No Silver Bullet

Saved on 2020-08-11 · cgl.ucsf.edu

architecture learning programming tech

10 Standout GitHub Profile READMEs - DEV

Saved on 2020-08-11 · dev.to

My good friend and colleague @bdougieyo is at Codeland today and is giving away early access to Codes...

games programming tech

What software teams can learn from music masterclasses - Helen Hou-Sandí

Saved on 2020-08-11 · helen.blog

I come from a musical background, with degrees in piano performance and piano accompanying and chamber music, and I think a lot about how that’s shaped who I’ve become in web and software development. I’ve even gotten to give a talk relating musicianship skills to programming and

career leadership learning music

How GPT3 Works - Visualizations and Animations – Jay Alammar – Visualizing

Saved on 2020-08-11 · jalammar.github.io

Discussions: Hacker News (397 points, 97 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (247 points, 27 comments) Translations: German, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Turkish The tech world is abuzz with GPT3 hype. Massive language models (like GPT3) are starting to surprise us

tech ai

Availability Group issues fixed with Alerts - Wayne Sheffield

Saved on 2020-08-10 · blog.waynesheffield.com

Learn how to use the SQL Server Agent Alerting system to detect Availability Group issues and to respond to them by running jobs.

data database sql tech

Katie Sylor-Miller - Frontend Architect at Etsy | StaffEng

Saved on 2020-08-10 · staffeng.com

This story was recorded in August, 2020. Learn more about Katie on her website, Linkedin, and Twitter. Tell us a little about your current role: your title, the company you work at, and generally what sort of work does your team do? I work at Etsy, which is the world’s leading on

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Applying Conway's Law to improve your software development | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-08-07 · thoughtworks.com

Many organizations have become adept at identifying what they need from software development projects, based on a keen understanding of their business goals. Even so, they’re often surprised to find out that the end results don’t achieve the transformative impact they were expect

architecture tech thoughtworks

A Founder's Guide to Writing Well — 8 Writing Tips | First Round Review

Saved on 2020-08-06 · firstround.com

There's a long list of most frequently-cited skills for becoming a successful entrepreneur. One that rarely makes the list is effective writing. Upstart CEO Dave Girouard pens this thoughtful case for the importance of strong writing in the startup world — and his tips for leveli

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Bookmarks from 2020

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205 bookmarks from 2020

Designing for the Appearance of Speed | by Bill Chung | Medium

Saved on 2020-08-03 · medium.com

The jury has spoken: performance, conversion, and brand engagement are inextricably connected.

design product psychology tech

Why Perceived Performance Matters, Part 1: The Perception Of Time — Smashin

Saved on 2020-08-03 · smashingmagazine.com

In this article, Denys Mishunov aims to provide you with the reasons and theories for why things function in certain way. He will use examples that are observable in the offline world and, using principles of psychology, research and analysis in psychophysics and neuroscience, he

design psychology tech

Real-time cinematic short Memories of Australia stirs powerful emotions - U

Saved on 2020-08-01 · unrealengine.com

When Andrew Svanberg Hamilton left his native Australia to pursue a career in game development on the other side of the world, he took with him deeply ingrained memories of family and landscape. Now he’s recreated them in a beautiful short film, rendered in real time in Unreal En

gaming tech

Linters aren't in your way. They're on your side - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-08-01 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming tech

The State Of Pixel Perfection

Saved on 2020-08-01 · ishadeed.com

A walkthrough of the term pixel perfection and if it's still relevant today or not.

code design javascript product tech

Ethical technology: From purpose to practice | Perspectives | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-08-01 · thoughtworks.com

This issue of Perspectives explores the strategies and frameworks that enable enterprises to foster an ethical technology practice.

politics tech thoughtworks

Your blog doesn’t need a JavaScript framework /// Iain Bean

Saved on 2020-08-01 · iainbean.com

Why I choose Eleventy over Gatsby for my new website

architecture programming tech

Research-backed actions to help communicate more effectively

Saved on 2020-07-31 · fastcompany.com

University of Oregon professors offer science-backed strategies to converse and connect with coworkers, clients, and family in a virtual environment.

career leadership psychology

Go hard and go home: what it’s like designing during a pandemic | by Jordan

Saved on 2020-07-31 · medium.com

At the end of April 2020, the Australian Government introduced a range of measures to help small businesses deal with the impact of COVID-19. JobKeeper was one of those measures. It was basically a…

design product

China’s Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State Goes Global - The Atlant

Saved on 2020-07-31 · theatlantic.com

Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.

politics tech ai

37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

Saved on 2020-07-27 · lesswrong.com

Some reader is bound to declare that a better title for this post would be "37 Ways That You Can Use Words Unwisely", or "37 Ways That Suboptimal Use…

learning psychology

We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn't We?

Saved on 2020-07-25 · wired.com

A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess.

business finance health

You've only added two lines - why did that take two days! ~ Matt Lacey: Cre

Saved on 2020-07-23 · mrlacey.com

It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions: lines of code = effort lines of code = value all lines of c...

product productivity tech

Blog Posts

Saved on 2020-07-22 · learningfromincidents.io

leadership psychology tech

All Hands on Deck. What does Slack do when Slack goes… | by Ryan Katkov | J

Saved on 2020-07-21 · slack.engineering

This story speaks to the process behind incident response at Slack and uses the May 12th, 2020 outage as an example. For a deeper technical review of the same outage, read Laura Nolan’s post, “A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack” Slack is a critical tool for mill

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A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack | by Laura Nolan | Jun

Saved on 2020-07-21 · slack.engineering

This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant ou

architecture product tech

Container technologies at Coinbase | by Coinbase | Jun, 2020 | The Coinbase

Saved on 2020-07-21 · blog.coinbase.com

architecture aws tech

Accessible to some - Manuel Matuzović

Saved on 2020-07-21 · matuzo.at

An experiment that tries to help you understand how bad accessibility affects users and their daily experiences on the web.

architecture design tech

Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Expla

Saved on 2020-07-21 · fs.blog

The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...

psychology

Staff-plus interview processes.

Saved on 2020-07-17 · lethain.com

When we talk about designing a Staff-plus engineer interview loop, the first thing to talk about is that absolutely no one is confident their Staff-plus interview loop works well. Many loops end up looking for a senior engineer who’s really fast at solving problems, which doesn’t

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How Stack Overflow hires engineers - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2020-07-11 · stackoverflow.blog

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The History of Search Engines - Audits.com

Saved on 2020-07-04 · carlhendy.com

Search Engines play an integral role in the lives of many of us, sometimes without us realising. A purchase on Amazon, usually starts with a product search. A new vacation booking, often begins with a hotel search. The answer to any question, is just a web search away. We look at

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Understanding the significance of cloud | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-06-29 · thoughtworks.com

A whistle-stop tour of why cloud became the major platform for modern IT

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Why are we so bad at software engineering? | www.bitlog.com

Saved on 2020-06-26 · bitlog.com

Our industry's mindset grew in an environment where failure is cheap and we are incentivized to move quickly. Our processes are poorly applied when the cost of a redo is high or a redo is impossible.

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Maersk, me & notPetya - gvnshtn

Saved on 2020-06-23 · gvnshtn.com

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Bookmarks from 2020

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205 bookmarks from 2020

The Architect Elevator — Visiting the upper floors

Saved on 2020-06-22 · martinfowler.com

Architects in traditional organizations need to ride the elevator between executive penthouse and digital engine room.

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Tackle Big-O Notation in .NET Core - Simple Talk

Saved on 2020-06-17 · red-gate.com

Every computer science student must learn about Big-O Notation, a way to conceptualize algorithm complexity that directly relates to performance of the algorithm. In this article, Camilo Reyes demonstrates how to apply Big-O algorithms to .NET Core applications.

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C# 9: Simplified Parameter Null Validation

Saved on 2020-06-17 · infoq.com

Simplified parameter null validation has been promoted to a C# 9 feature. This narrowly tailored feature reduces the amount of code needed to validate non-null parameters to a single character in the

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iiSM.org

Saved on 2020-06-15 · iism.org

Most companies mistakenly apply value replication principles to discovery

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How working apart brought our team together - Humans of Xero - Medium

Saved on 2020-06-12 · medium.com

Historically, I haven’t been the biggest advocate of remote working. Sure, my team worked from home occasionally, but I always believed that in-person collaboration was vital for development teams. I…

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How I Learned to Have Uncomfortable Conversations | Human Parts

Saved on 2020-06-09 · humanparts.medium.com

I had 50 painfully uncomfortable conversations with strangers in New York City to practice being assertive under pressure. Here’s what I learned.

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Machine learning makes finding the right tech on the Xero app marketplace e

Saved on 2020-06-09 · devblog.xero.com

At Xero, we’re on a mission to get more apps into the hands of small business owners, because we know when they’re connected to the right technology, they’re more likely to see increased revenue and…

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Bakedbean.org.uk - Developing Stack Overflow on MacOS

Saved on 2020-06-09 · bakedbean.org.uk

After a whole lot of months in the making we finally finished porting Stack Overflow to .NET Core 3.1 🎉! When you hit any part of Stack Overflow or the wider Stack Exchange network you’re now hitting our main application running on .NET Core behind IIS using the in-process execut

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The Culture Map: A Systematic & Intentional Tool For Designing Great Compan

Saved on 2020-06-09 · strategyzer.com

If I asked you: what’s the one thing you’ll do differently tomorrow to make your organization a better place to work, where would you start? How would you design, communicate and implement

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Web Developer Roadmap in 2019 – Yogeswaran

Saved on 2020-06-09 · yogeswaran.home.blog

Introduction to Web Development Front-end Development Roadmap Back-end Development Roadmap DevOps Roadmap

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The System Thinking Change Agent Survival Guide | @johncutlefish's blog

Saved on 2020-06-09 · cutle.fish

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Row counts and arrow width, Compute Scalar - SQL Server Fast

Saved on 2020-06-04 · sqlserverfast.com

This is the fifth and final post in my May 2020 series about the Actual and Estimated Number of Rows properties in execution plans. In the previous posts, I talked about how you can use them, the confusion a Nested Loops operator can cause, how sometimes the graphical representat

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The Future of Product Management in the 2020s - Product Management Insider

Saved on 2020-06-03 · medium.com

Paul Simon chose “The Boy in the Bubble” as the lead track for his 1985 album, Graceland, because it conveyed to the listener his mindset during the making of the album. Fresh off his divorce from…

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Did someone say BigQuery UDFs? I'll take 10! — Chris Tippett

Saved on 2020-06-03 · christippett.dev

If you're not already a fan of BigQuery's UDFs, you soon will be.

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Remote-first: A behavioural pattern for product team design | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-06-03 · thoughtworks.com

Six headphone-wearing tech-workers on a product team sit together in a co-work facility, with an iron-clad rule that states that they must not talk to each other face-to-face at any time. To level the collaboration playing field with their 4 remote team members, they all use Zoom

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The Remote Pairing Cheat Sheet | ThoughtWorks

Saved on 2020-06-03 · thoughtworks.com

The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the distributed model to the forefront, with remote work becoming the norm, even for teams that are usually co-located. This impacts everything, from an organization’s global footprint, to cultural aspects like prioritising communic

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Rebuilding our tech stack for a new Facebook.com - Facebook Engineering

Saved on 2020-05-25 · engineering.fb.com

Building a new web app for today’s browsers, we completely rebuilt our tech stack to achieve our goals for performance and sustainable future growth.

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Why Atlassian uses an internal PaaS to regulate AWS access - Atlassian Deve

Saved on 2020-05-25 · blog.developer.atlassian.com

Unleashing the potential of all teams with tips, tools, and practices

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Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.

Saved on 2020-05-25 · lethain.com

There are few things more exciting than being at a company during hypergrowth, but it’s easy to let hypergrowth get away from you, and to end up reacting instead of planning. It’s hard to steer when you’re rebuilding a plane mid-flight, but you can always nudge it in the right di

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Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.

Saved on 2020-05-25 · lethain.com

Migrations are both essential and frustratingly frequent as your codebase ages and your business grows: most tools and processes only support about one order magnitude of growth before becoming ineffective, so rapid growth makes them a way of life. This post takes a look at why m

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What the Heck is Backstage Anyway? | Labs

Saved on 2020-05-25 · engineering.atspotify.com

Yesterday, we released the open source version of , our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via the feedback we received. So, I wanted to take this opportunity to further explain what we’re trying to do with Backstage — and more importantly, what we want to

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Time is linear. Customer journeys are not. - Humans of Xero - Medium

Saved on 2020-05-25 · medium.com

As a service designer, I’m often asked to help map the customer journey of products and services. Most of the time, people want a journey because it’s visual — something they can look at and have a…

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Commit Hygiene - Winning with GIT - EddieWould

Saved on 2020-05-20 · eddiewould.com

GIT101: A novel mental-model of git concepts, the pitfalls of traditional “pulling” and “merging” & how to author a good commit (and why it matters).

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Don't Rewrite Your App, Unless You Have To - Snap Engineering

Saved on 2020-05-14 · eng.snap.com

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Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Proj

Saved on 2020-05-08 · donellameadows.org

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Bookmarks from 2020

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:56:00 +0000

205 bookmarks from 2020

The Patient Change Agent | @johncutlefish's blog

Saved on 2020-05-07 · cutle.fish

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Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases

Saved on 2020-04-27 · medium.com

A large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated over time, but along the way our design mistakes caused data…

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Making the Right Decision Every Time - Ben Fathi - Medium

Saved on 2020-04-20 · medium.com

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…

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You don’t need to stop shipping features to fix technical debt

Saved on 2020-04-20 · medium.com

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

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Team Objectives - Overview | Silicon Valley Product Group

Saved on 2020-03-23 · svpg.com

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

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Clean Coder Blog

Saved on 2020-03-04 · blog.cleancoder.com

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Typing the technical interview

Saved on 2020-03-04 · aphyr.com

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Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine

Saved on 2020-03-04 · bbc.co.uk

Leo Kelion investigates the rise of Amazon and its huge data-gathering operation

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On Pair Programming

Saved on 2020-03-04 · martinfowler.com

A guide to effective pair-programming

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Producing gasoline and diesel emits more CO2 than we thought

Saved on 2020-02-20 · ioplus.nl

Many of you know that I regularly debunk the claim that diesel vehicles emit less CO2 than electric vehicles. But one thing that I hadn’t really worked out is just how much CO2 is emitted when…

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Frederick Vanbrabant delirious rantings

Saved on 2020-02-19 · frederickvanbrabant.com

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?

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How DISC is like the Hogwarts Houses

Saved on 2020-02-19 · athleteassessments.com

Often with behavioral profiles like DISC, being able to apply the concept to something you already know, helps to quickly understand it. If you are familiar with Harry Potter, then this is an excellent platform to better get to know DISC behavioral profiling. Whether you grew up

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3 Strategies for Becoming a Self-Made Meeting Master | Inc.com

Saved on 2020-02-14 · inc.com

It takes skill to run a great meeting. Here's how to get the practice you need.

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2 Questions to Ask When Interviewing New Leaders | Inc.com

Saved on 2020-02-14 · inc.com

Leaders spend up to 80 percent of their day in meetings. Better make sure they have the skills needed to use that time well.

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10 Research-Backed Rules for Meaningful Meetings | Inc.com

Saved on 2020-02-14 · inc.com

Studies reveal the keys to running consistently effective and meaningful business meetings.

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Everything you always wanted to know about running Silent Meetings but were

Saved on 2020-02-14 · medium.com

UPDATE: I expanded this post into a much more detailed guide called “Silent Meeting Manifesto v1”. Go there if you want to learn more. “Silent Meetings” are meetings where most of the time is spent…

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The Evil List: Which tech companies are doing the most harm?

Saved on 2020-02-14 · slate.com

The 30 most dangerous corporations in the industry, ranked by the people who know.

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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

Saved on 2020-02-13 · washingtonpost.com

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.

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Work Is Work

Saved on 2020-01-14 · codahale.com

In which returns diminish.

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Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective - The New Stack

Saved on 2020-01-13 · thenewstack.io

A summary of the observability movement over the past three years.

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FlaccidScrum

Saved on 2020-01-13 · martinfowler.com

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.

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Anarchitecture - DEV Community ?‍??‍?

Saved on 2020-01-13 · dev.to

Development in Post-Agile, Managerless Teams Software teams often need a personnel as a br...

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The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

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…

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Do you have what it takes to be an agile coach? - Humans of Xero - Medium

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

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…

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Product managers — get away from the backlog! - The Startup - Medium

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

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…

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Bookmarks from 2020

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:56:00 +0000

205 bookmarks from 2020

A Product Manager’s Guide to When to Say No to Machine Learning (and When t

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

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…

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Talk write-up: "How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers"

Saved on 2020-01-13 · srvaroa.github.io

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...

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Why Container Devs Need to Care about re:Invent 2019’s Serverless Launches

Saved on 2020-01-13 · medium.com

A field guide to the 2019 AWS re:Invent Serverless launches.

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Defining SLOs for services with dependencies - CRE life lessons | Google Cl

Saved on 2020-01-10 · cloud.google.com

Learn how to define and manage SLOs for services with dependencies, each of which may have their own SLOs.

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The Calculus of Service Availability: You’re only as available as the sum of your dependencies.

Saved on 2020-01-10 · queue.acm.org

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

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