Friday Links

3 research-backed principles that help you scale your engineering org https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/3-research-backed-principles-scaling-engineering Paris mayor unveils ‘15-minute city’ plan in re-election campaign https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/paris-mayor-unveils-15-minute-city-plan-in-re-election-campaign UN poverty expert’s visit shines light on struggles of Spain’s poor https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/un-poverty-experts-visit-shines-light-on-struggles-of-spains-poor Street View’s 15 favorite Street Views https://www.blog.google/products/maps/street-views-15-favorite-street-views/ A new hash algorithm for Git https://lwn.net/Articles/811068/ Istio as an Example of When Not to Do Microservices https://blog.christianposta.com/microservices/istio-as-an-example-of-when-not-to-do-microservices/ Monoliths are the future https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future Browsers, web sites, and user tracking https://lwn.net/Articles/811532/ Austerity, gentrification and big tunes: why illegal raves are flourishing https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/05/austerity-gentrification-and-big-tunes-why-illegal-raves-are-flourishing ...

February 7, 2020 · 2 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Zappos has quietly backed away from holacracy https://qz.com/work/1776841/zappos-has-quietly-backed-away-from-holacracy/ emacs-todoist https://github.com/abrochard/emacs-todoist Use Emacs to get social and track your todo list https://opensource.com/article/20/1/emacs-social-track-todo-list How we retired Python 2 and improved developer happiness https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/how-we-retired-python-2-and-improved-developer-happiness Why the Guardian will no longer accept fossil fuel advertising https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2020/jan/29/why-the-guardian-will-no-longer-accept-fossil-fuel-advertising Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-with-third-party-trackers/ Terraform at Flexport https://flexport.engineering/terraform-at-flexport-c274a9d86d9f New Enterprise IT Controls for Data Studio https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/new-enterprise-it-controls-data-studio/ Google Receives Geofence Warrants https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/google_receives.html How to Perform Concurrent HTTP Requests in Ruby and Rails https://pawelurbanek.com/ruby-concurrent-requests Introducing Buffer’s Family Support Fund https://open.buffer.com/family-support-fund/ ...

January 31, 2020 · 1 min · Christof Damian
Saying goodbye to some legacy code

Saying goodbye to some legacy code

When I joined Devex a bit more than six years ago most of the code base was in one large monolith. This monolith was based on Ruby On Rails and was responsible for delivering devex.com. This part was called “neo”. I guess because it was a rewrite of a previous Java version. I am not sure if it was a reference to Matrix or the Greek meaning. There were already some initiatives in place rewriting parts of it in different services, but the monolith was always looming in the background. Any changes to it required increasing amount of work. It was like someone tried to put the definition of technical code into code. ...

January 28, 2020 · 3 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

How we built the good first issues feature https://github.blog/2020-01-22-how-we-built-good-first-issues/ Which of these 2020 Democrats agrees with you most? https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/quiz-which-candidate-agrees-with-me/ KubeInvaders - Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/01/22/kubeinvaders-gamified-chaos-engineering-tool-for-kubernetes/ Rails is Fast: Optimize Your View Performance https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/01/22/rails-is-fast-optimize-your-view-performance.html PHP in 2020 https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2020 Linkedin: Global Talent Trends https://business.linkedin.com/content/dam/me/business/en-us/talent-solutions/resources/pdfs/global-talent-trends-2019-EMEA.pdf How I Master My Calendar on Buffer’s Distributed Team https://open.buffer.com/calendar/ Uber Has Been Quietly Assembling One of the Most Impressive Open Source Deep Learning Stacks in the Market ...

January 24, 2020 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

How Slack is Silently Killing Your Productivity https://www.userlike.com/en/amp/blog/slack-productivity Goofonts https://goofonts.com/ Enroll in the new Advanced Protection Program in an instant https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/new-advanced-protection-program-account-security-instant/ Portfolio for Jira 3.0 and beyond https://www.atlassian.com/blog/portfolio-for-jira/portfolio-for-jira-3-and-beyond “Up and to the right” with Data Studio https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/up-and-to-the-right-with-data-studio/ Pros and Cons of Using structure.sql in Your Ruby on Rails Application https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/01/15/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-structure-sql-in-your-ruby-on-rails-application.html My polyglot Advent of Code https://m.signalvnoise.com/my-polyglot-advent-of-code/ Engineering management: An Interview with Michael Lopp https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-michael-lopp-interview-management Why Cassettes Are The New 45s https://blog.discogs.com/en/cassettes-are-the-new-45s/ Floppy Sleeves https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157682181421785 Google to phase out user-agent strings in Chrome https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/google-to-phase-out-user-agent-strings-in-chrome/ ...

January 17, 2020 · 2 min · Christof Damian