Friday Links

12 “Manager READMEs” from Silicon Valley’s Top Tech Companies
https://hackernoon.com/12-manager-readmes-from-silicon-valleys-top-tech-companies-26588a660afe

Make your peers your first team.
https://lethain.com/first-team/

Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aurora-serverless-ga/

Churn Prediction: First Contact
https://overflow.buffer.com/2018/08/13/predicting-churn/

Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/upshot/employer-wellness-programs-randomized-trials.html

5 reasons to check out the World Bank’s new data catalog
https://medium.com/world-of-opportunity/5-reasons-to-check-out-the-world-bank-new-data-catalog-e342f3889cc2

Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old 
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/08/google-public-dns-turns-8888-years-old.html

TravelTime Platform
https://app.traveltimeplatform.com/

Running an All-hands
https://medium.com/@gokulrajaram/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-all-hands-but-were-afraid-to-ask-b13f7b97f2d9

AppSignal Ruby gem 2.7: Improvements and bug fixes
https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/08/13/ruby-gem-2-7.html

Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
https://gravitational.com/blog/running-postgresql-on-kubernetes/

Schneier: Identifying Programmers by their Coding Style
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/08/identifying_pro.html

What Is a Good Unit Test? 5 Must-Haves
https://blog.ndepend.com/good-unit-test-5-must-haves/

L1 Terminal Fault Speculative Execution Issue
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2018-019/https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/08/speculation_att.html

Our 2018 budget is $11 Million, here’s exactly how we’re using it (Part 2 of 3, Buffer Budget Series)
https://open.buffer.com/transparent-budget/

One weird trick made me a better programmer / speaker / product person (SSL expired atm)
https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2018/one-weird-trick-better-programmer-speaker-product-person/

Simplifying Data Studio embeds and social sharing
https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/simplifying-data-studio-embeds-and-social-sharing/

The Problems and Promise of WebAssembly (Project Zero)
https://lwn.net/Articles/762856/rss

Debian: 25 years and counting
https://lwn.net/Articles/762854/rss