Friday Links

Notes on Building Evolutionary Architectures.
https://lethain.com/building-evolutionary-architectures/

7 leadership lessons over 2.5 years
https://m.signalvnoise.com/7-leadership-lessons-over-2-5-years/

Test Flakiness – Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests
https://labs.spotify.com/2019/11/18/test-flakiness-methods-for-identifying-and-dealing-with-flaky-tests/

How we scaled our design system to unleash Skyscanner’s new brand 
https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/how-we-scaled-our-design-system-to-unleash-skyscanners-new-brand-845a1f501b0b

Officevibe Just Got A Makeover – And It’s Making Room for Your Teams
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/officevibe-makeover-teams

How to Play Windows-only Games on Linux with Steam Play
https://itsfoss.com/steam-play/

The Fallacy of needing a technical manager
https://unwiredcouch.com/2019/11/19/technical-manager.html

Hey Google, play me the news
https://www.blog.google/products/news/your-news-update/

Blade Runner Day
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/11/blade-runner-day/

JavaScript Errors: An Exceptional History - Part II
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/11/20/javascript-errors-an-exceptional-history-part-ii.html

Isolating Rails Engines with RuboCop
https://flexport.engineering/isolating-rails-engines-with-rubocop-210feaba3164

12 Key Andy Grove Quotes on Leadership from High Output Management
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/andy-grove-quotes-leadership-high-output-management/

Technical Debt
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/tech-debt-from-twitter/

The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture
https://medium.com/@dan_manges/the-modular-monolith-rails-architecture-fb1023826fc4

An Engineering Team where Everyone is a Leader
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/a-team-where-everyone-is-a-leader/

Do engineering managers need to be technical?
https://increment.com/teams/do-engineering-managers-need-to-be-technical/

Bad Binder: Android In-The-Wild Exploit
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/11/bad-binder-android-in-wild-exploit.html

The Blue Tape List
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-blue-tape-list/

Breaking The Walls Between Business and Agile Teams
https://productcoalition.com/breaking-the-walls-between-business-and-agile-teams-5fe944c70565

A detailed comment on the practice of estimation in Software Development – a #NoEstimates post
http://softwaredevelopmenttoday.com/2019/11/a-detailed-comment-on-the-practice-of-estimation-in-software-development-a-noestimates-post/

Configurable Ruby Modules: The Module Builder Pattern
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/11/29/configurable-ruby-modules-the-module-builder-pattern.html

Inefficient Efficiency
https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/inefficient-efficiency-5b3ab5294791

The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups | Daniel Coyle | RSA Replay
https://youtu.be/5T9tRvkXtns

Friday Links

Managing packages with GitHub Packages
https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-packages-with-github-packages

Hey! Ho! Ten Years of Go!https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/11/hey-ho-ten-years-of-go.html

Announcing the Bytecode Alliance
https://lwn.net/Articles/804648

How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails
https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/write-fast-code-ruby-rails

Launch: Basecamp Gets Personal
https://m.signalvnoise.com/launch-basecamp-gets-personal/

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019/

Static Typing in Ruby with a Side of Sorbet
https://blog.heroku.com/static-typing-ruby-with-sorbet

Addressing Technical Debt
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/addressing-technical-debt

Slack app in Python series
https://lethain.com/creating-slack-app-python/

Scaling in the presence of errors—don’t ignore them
https://programmingisterrible.com/post/188942142748/scaling-in-the-presence-of-errorsdont-ignore

Downsizing the office. Upsizing remote-first.
https://wildbit.com/blog/2019/11/08/downsizing-the-office-upsizing-remote-first

AWS Begins Sunsetting RIs; Replaces Them With Something Much, Much Better
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-begins-sunsetting-ris-replaces-them-with-something-much-much-better/

Hello Netflix! (Manager Readme)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15bRazh2UeWsqOZJLRO-zSEipM0xf6zbI97gyKzLLi30/edit#slide=id.p1

Podcasts
Edward Snowden on surveillance capitalism, the threats facing democracy, and why he doesn't want you to trust him
https://pca.st/ewow9dl9

The Three Questions To Ask Every New Manager, Part Two With Doug Gaff
https://pca.st/sz535ftd

Bill Gates — How to accelerate history
https://pca.st/h7xkk4dl

Friday Links

Do This Now: 8 Ways to Focus your Product Team on Impact, Not Features
https://amplitude.com/blog/focus-product-team-on-impact

To sell your car faster, take a side picture first!
https://medium.com/letgo/if-you-want-to-sell-your-car-you-should-take-a-side-picture-first-1cfa80c0e45e

Journey to Product Teams (Infographic)
https://amplitude.com/blog/journey-to-product-teams-infographic

Management in ten tweets
https://medium.com/@marcprecipice/management-in-ten-tweets-5157dc4bdcad

Git v2.24.0
https://github.blog/2019-11-03-highlights-from-git-2-24/

Forecasting synthetic metrics.
https://lethain.com/forecasting-synthetic-metrics/

How to Read Performance Metrics in AppSignal
https://blog.appsignal.com/2019/11/05/how-to-read-appsignal-performance-metrics.html

Identifying buggy patches with machine learning
https://lwn.net/Articles/803695/

Wil Wheaton: The Purge.
http://wilwheaton.net/2019/11/the-purge/

Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You To A New Home
 https://hackaday.com/2019/10/16/pack-your-bags-systemd-is-taking-you-to-a-new-home/

Microsoft Japan tested a four-day work week and productivity jumped by 40%
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/04/microsoft-japan-four-day-work-week-productivity

Get faster with the new Speed report in Search Console
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/11/search-console-speed-report.html

Firefox will hide push notification requests by default
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/11/04/firefox-will-hide-push-notification-requests-by-default/

Sending weekly 5-15 updates.
https://lethain.com/weekly-updates/

Jira Cloud for Google Sheets: Automatically Refresh Your Data!
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Jira-Cloud-for-Google-Sheets-Automatically-Refresh-Your-Data/ba-p/1200264

6 remarkable features of the new United Nations open source initiative
https://opensource.com/article/19/11/united-nations-goes-open-source

Not enough hours in the day? Well, finding more may not help
https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/01/not-enough-hours-in-the-day-well-finding-more-may-not-help

¡Hola España! An AWS Region is coming to Spain!
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2019/10/aws-region-europe-spain.html

A Broken Random Number Generator in AMD Microcode
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/a_broken_random.html

The current adoption status of cgroup v2 in containers
https://medium.com/nttlabs/cgroup-v2-596d035be4d7

Creating a Slack App in Python on GCP.
https://lethain.com/creating-slack-app-python/

Podcasts

How Zapier Scales Past 100 Engineers, Part One With Doug Gaff
https://pca.st/u2frmgnm

Facebook Products with Peter Deng
https://pca.st/8n7jmlnp

Facebook Reflections with Pete Hunt and Nick Schrock
https://pca.st/81sxp65z