“Everything tends to fall into place when you’ve got a great team who’s aligned and empowered.”
Docker Names Donnie Berkholz to Vice President of Products - Docker Blog https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-names-donnie-berkholz-to-vice-president-of-products/
Cool. I’ve never found cursor repositioning speed as the most limiting constraint for working together or providing solutions to ambiguous problems. 🤷♂️
“[H]ere are the basic forces acting on software design...” (via @Pocket) https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/monolith-services-theory-practice-617e4546a879
“So, what tends to happen when a manager starts to get too many direct reports?” (via @Pocket) https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/managing-managers/dont-make-yourself-redundant/
“Don’t fall into the trap of disrespecting operations engineering labor, it’s the only thing that can save you.” (via @Pocket) https://charity.wtf/2020/10/03/on-call-shouldnt-suck-a-guide-for-managers/
Yep. It also creates a strained escalation process when “acting” and EM need arbitration. If an org is growing this rapidly I’d think the freed up Director would be taking on other challenges and building up new areas.
You can now bring you own observability tools (and more) to your Lambda’s execution environment with Lambda extensions. 🎉 https://twitter.com/julian_wood/status/1314250534686281729
“Semgrep is a tool well adapted to answering questions and fixing the problems you face in high growth engineering organisations.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://highgrowthengineering.substack.com/p/semgrep-
“But operators have quickly become popular and the sheer proliferation means that ironically, Kubernetes ops teams are needing to gain that same deep knowledge about operators themselves...” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhSKi8
“Tabb’s superhero classification is a way to recognize the unique faculty of your exceptional engineers, and, in doing so, create the optimal environment for them to flex their powers.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhSKba
“The five ideals apply equally to security and development. They can help make a team more productive, happier with their work, and drive business success.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhSKlV
“With this new capability, it’s now easier to use Python packages in Lambda that require storage space to load models and other dependencies.”
Pay as you go machine learning inference with AWS Lambda(via @Pocket) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/pay-as-you-go-machine-learning-inference-with-aws-lambda/
“My two cents is that infrastructure is more important than architecture...” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://evolutionarymanager.com/building-great-engineering-teams-gergely-orosz/
I do remember some storyline problems, but it had very memorable characters, music, and mood.
I’m using https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-08-10/how-to-watch-and-stream-battlestar-galactica-is-the-sci-fi-series-on-netflix/ for the order.
Curious to hear what you come up with. I’m looking at things like below, but not sure how helpful it would be for a switch. How many monitors do you have? 😀
“After a decade of shipping software projects in various environments, I have started to notice patterns on projects that are more successful than others.” (via @Pocket) https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/efficient-software-project-management-at-its-roots/
“I’d like to share some helpful approaches to eliciting impactful questions so that your team can make better decisions about what to measure.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhrLXq
Today could be the day: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1277201/software-development-engineer https://twitter.com/paigefinnn/status/1316957862275461121
Yep. Similarly, If a package changes an internal implementation that’s opaque to consumers, but causes regressions due to emergent GC changes in aggregate, is that a compatible change?
“The best advice I’ve received about convincing stakeholders is to write for them, not you.” (via @Pocket) http://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/10/19/big-changes.html
“Your team’s output is really dependent on your team members, so an expectation for engineering managers is to support the members of your team and help them grow.”(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/shPgJD
“The goal is to call this function from Go with passing input and return data between the Go and Python runtimes.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhPgR5
“What I want to make clear is adding generics or immutability has nothing to do with the syntax of those features...and everything to do with the impact on the overall complexity budget of the language and its libraries...”
“The SRE cargo cult is based on the same flawed premise, and espouses SRE error budgets, SRE engineers, SRE teams, and SRE certifications as a panacea.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://www.stevesmith.tech/blog/aim-for-operability-not-sre-as-a-cult/
“I helped to invent new approaches to correlate telemetry signals (exemplars, correlation between tracing and logging, profiler labels) that helped our engineers to navigate latency problems faster.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xh4p3s
“You can use this to carve out an isolated environment on any EC2 instance that is powered by the Nitro System.” (via @Pocket) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-nitro-enclaves-isolated-ec2-environments-to-process-confidential-data/
“This functionality covers many practical needs, but not merging - the case where it is neccessary to derive new context from multiple parents.” https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36503
“Observability is the ability to interrogate our systems after the fact in a data-rich, high-fidelity way.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://bravenewgeek.com/microservice-observability-part-1-disambiguating-observability-and-monitoring/
“This blog post will highlight something you might not know yet in four different domains...” (via @Pocket) https://www.cloudar.be/awsblog/level-up-your-cloudformation-usage-with-these-4-tips/
“Let’s think about how we could reshape our work to embrace more asynchronous practices so that we can add some diversity back into our workday.”
How to debug remote work, as suggested by new research - Work Life by Atlassian https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/new-research-covid-19-remote-work-impact
“The journey from EM to Director to VP takes you along a path from tactical to operational to strategic.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/managing-managers/vp-director-what/
