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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/ ...

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/ ...

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 ...

Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/dark_web_site_t.html Cycling through all the streets in central London http://davis.vilums.me/all-the-streets/ How the Internet Archive is Digitizing LPs to Preserve Generations of Audio https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/10/how-the-internet-archive-is-digitizing-lps-to-preserve-generations-of-audio/ Organic Software Architecture https://dev.to/kmruiz/organic-software-architecture-3548 We Tried ‘Half-Day Fridays.’ Here’s How It Went. https://open.buffer.com/half-day-fridays/ Vint Cerf’s top moments from 50 years of the Internet https://www.blog.google/inside-google/googlers/vint-cerf-top-moments-50-years-internet/ Linus Torvalds: ‘I’m not a programmer anymore’ https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-im-not-a-programmer-anymore/ Is Google’s new BERT technology another nail in traditional SEO’s coffin? https://econsultancy.com/googles-bert-algorithm-seo-dead/ Carbon Offsetting: What Is It, and Does It Even Work? https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/pa78d7/carbon-offsetting-what-is-it-and-does-it-even-work ...

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/ ...