Devops

I heard of the Lead Dev conference series some time at the end of the last year. There are not many conferences that focus on engineering leaders, most of the technology conferences are focused on specific technologies, methodologies or the business side. It was too late for the Berlin 2019 conference, so I set my eyes on either the London or Berlin 2020 conference. In the end I decided against London, because I wanted to avoid short plane trips as much as possible and staying longer in London also wasn’t an option. ...

Recently our CEO Raj Kumar spent a week in our Barcelona office where the majority of our engineering department is located. I was working on some ideas for him to meet the team and get some insights into our daily work. While most of the company is aware of UI/UX and front-end changes we are doing to our site, some of the back-end and infrastructure work can seem like black magic. I think it is important to take every opportunity to bring this output closer to the rest of the company and especially the leadership. ...

When I wrote the review of The Manager’s Path I started to think about other books I wish I had read earlier. Usually these triggered some kind of change in how I approach my work or life. This list is definitely incomplete and I will add more to the goodreads list at the bottom of this post. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck I still remember when and where I read this for the first time. It was on a plane from the US OSCON back to London where I had my start-up. ...

facebook: Looking back on “Look Back” videos https://code.facebook.com/posts/236248456565933/looking-back-on-look-back-videos/ Github: No Conversation Left Behind https://github.com/blog/1811-no-conversation-left-behind A Robot for Timo http://blog.printf.net/articles/2014/03/18/a-robot-for-timo/ Testing on the Toilet: What Makes a Good Test? http://googletesting.blogspot.de/2014/03/testing-on-toilet-what-makes-good-test.html Only 90s Web Developers Remember This http://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/ Tuenti Blog Tag: Continuous Integration: http://corporate.tuenti.com/en/dev/blog/tags/continuous%20integration Why your previous developer was terrible https://medium.com/p/506a06ae35ea Github: Switch your picture with ease https://github.com/blog/1803-switch-your-picture-with-ease Big, Small, Hot or Cold - Examples of Robust Data Pipelines from Stripe, Tapad, Etsy and Square http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/24/big-small-hot-or-cold-examples-of-robust-data-pipelines-from.html You Don’t Have Big Data… http://blog.mongohq.com/you-dont-have-big-data/

Hierarchy of DevOps needs https://www.kickstarter.com/backing-and-hacking/hierarchy-of-devops-needs 10 Things We Forgot to Monitor http://word.bitly.com/post/74839060954/ten-things-to-monitor