Friday Links

Announcing our acquisition of Code Barrel, makers of Automation for Jira
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/welcome-code-barrel-automation-for-jira

Seniority for Software Engineers: a Tech Talk
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/seniority-tech-talk/

Letting Birds scooters fly free
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.html

Client Consistency at Slack: Beyond Libslack
https://slack.engineering/client-consistency-at-slack-beyond-libslack-c9cfbe778fb7

PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons
http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/10/18/postgresql-connection-pooling-part-1-pros-cons.html

Learnings from the journey to continuous deployment
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/learnings-from-the-journey-to-continuous-deployment

Do Software Developers Normally Code on Weekends? Work-life Balance and Overtime in the Tech Industry
https://codeahoy.com/2019/10/19/do-software-developers-work-weekends-work-life-tech/

Towards a Culture of Teams
https://agileoutloud.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/towards-a-culture-of-teams/

Skip level meetings: What they are, and exactly how to run them
https://m.signalvnoise.com/skip-level-meetings-what-they-are-and-exactly-how-to-run-them/

My Experience with Burnout as a Startup Founder
https://open.buffer.com/burnout/

How Amplitude’s Learning & Development Stipend Fosters Our Growth Mindset
https://amplitude.com/blog/learning-and-development-stipend

Fast/Slow in 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/fast-slow-in-3x-explore-expand-extract-6d4c94a7539

Bezos DDoS'd: Amazon Web Services' DNS systems knackered by hours-long cyber-attack
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/22/aws_dns_ddos/

Publishing on Medium
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/publishing-on-medium-b1f788c42634

NordVPN Breached
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/nordvpn_breache.html

6 myths about chat etiquette that are slowing you down
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/chat-etiquette-myths-slack-tips

Dealing with a production incident after midnight
https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/production-incident-postmortem-aws-cache-12d722e30840

the big leaps...
https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1107177025914068993

Understanding searches better than ever before
https://www.blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/

Podcasts

Building a World-Class Onboarding Process For Your Software Engineering Team
https://pca.st/0v9m9oql

#1: Eoghan McCabe (CEO at Intercom) on finding your authentic leadership style
https://pca.st/z3cytzk0

#2: Katie Womersley (VP Engineering at Buffer) on managing a fully remote engineering team
https://pca.st/uc5vnt9r

#4: Camille Fournier (Author of The Manager's Path) on Manager Readmes... and if you should make one
https://pca.st/wzgzzmig