Friday Links

Stripe’s Will Larson on Designing a Performance Management System from Scratch
https://blog.gitprime.com/designing-performance-management-systems/

Have tech perks gone too far?
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/employee-retention-is-about-more-than-perks

New – Train Custom Document Classifiers with Amazon Comprehend
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-train-custom-document-classifiers-with-amazon-comprehend/


Headcount dilemmas.
https://lethain.com/headcount-dilemmas/

Configuration as code
https://twitter.com/springrod/status/1063412788670926849

JWZ: Weird Machines
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/11/weird-machines/

Google News may shut over EU plans to charge tax for links
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/18/google-news-may-shut-over-eu-plans-to-charge-tax-for-links

Worst-Case Thinking Breeds Fear and Irrationality
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/worst-case_thin_1.html

How your office building is tricking you into going green
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/sustainable-workspaces-and-practices

From Maker to Manager: How to Take the Leap
https://open.buffer.com/maker-to-manager/

Self Documenting Code vs. Comments? Turns Out It’s Both or Neither
https://blog.ndepend.com/self-documenting-code-vs-comments/

New – Amazon Route 53 Resolver for Hybrid Clouds
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-route-53-resolver-for-hybrid-clouds/

Information Attacks against Democracies
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/information_att.html

If you want an open company culture, start this one habit
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/inside-atlassian/internal-blogging-knowledge-sharing

New – Predictive Scaling for EC2, Powered by Machine Learning
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-predictive-scaling-for-ec2-powered-by-machine-learning/

I was a CRUDoholic
https://blog.arkency.com/i-was-a-crudoholic/

I hate manager READMEs
https://medium.com/@skamille/i-hate-manager-readmes-20a0dd9a70d0

Why Good Developers Write Bad Unit Tests
https://mtlynch.io/good-developers-bad-tests/