Developer Productivity - Do you measure or Should you measure? Here is an article on how various company measures developer productivity The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence Should AI be feared or adoption should be slowed down or it should be merged into activities that...
Nibble Gems
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Organize your week as an Engineering Manager
How do you see your week as an Engineering Manager? If you need some assistance take a look here (People on) Nice Teams Finish Last If you have to shoot, shoot, but shoot in context we would say. When to state the obvious? Take a look here Automating dead code...
Software engineers hate code
In our view, this is one of the classic articles and a must-read. Read it here How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers Is quantity quality? An exciting read on performance engineering here McKinsey Developer Productivity Review A well-articulated retort to the Mckinsey developer productivity article....
Thought works Radar
Thought works Radar influences some of our decision-making. Get the latest one here Moving From IC to Engineering Manager Do you want to move from an individual contributor to an Engineering Manager? This guide will help you to see if you have the right motivation. Create a Dev Environment with...
In defense of simple architectures
Simple is boring, but effective. Read it here A DNS Murder Mystery Sometimes unraveling an outage can get as interesting as a Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Read an interesting story here Thinking faster to create more with Andrew Nalband, founder of Thunk Personal Knowledge Management is important and we hear from...
Self Healing Code
This article likely explores an innovative aspect of software development: self-healing code, where software is engineered to identify and fix its own bugs or errors, making the development and maintenance process more efficient and reliable. Link How Google Measures and Manages Tech Debt: The article presumably discusses Google's approach to...
A Beginner’s Guide to Prompt Engineering with GitHub Copilot
Make Copilot and Prompt Engineering your friend. Here is a good article about that. What Part of the System Needs to be Smart? How do you decide what needs to be the core? Never an easy way out. Similar views are expressed in this article. Gives you some pointers when...
No one size fits all
The perils of going the microservices way for anything. Amazon dumped its serverless and micro-service architecture. Read about it here What is common between the bible and code? Are the keywords finite? Check out here Technology is soft Any change is a mixture of many related and unrelated things. What...
Claude Shannon on Creative Thinking
What are the essential three things for being creative? Training and ExperienceCertain Amount of Intelligence or TalentMotivation The full article can be accessed here The 30 best bits of advice Firstround is a place we visit regularly and recommend every aspiring engineering leader to follow. They came out recently with...