Friday Links

How Meetup scales notification queue consumers https://medium.com/making-meetup/how-meetup-scales-notification-queue-consumers-ed98b0ecec0a JWZ: Epochryphal https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/11/epochryphal/ Troy Hunt on Passwords https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/troy_hunt_on_pa.html GitHub Services Brownout Updates and Timeline https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-11-05-github-services-brownout/ GitHub: Postponing stricter validation https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-11-07-strict-validation/ Double-bucketing in A/B Testing https://codeascraft.com/2018/11/07/double-bucketing-in-ab-testing/ Update on Basecamp 3 being stuck in read-only as of Nov 8, 12:41pm CST https://m.signalvnoise.com/update-on-basecamp-3-being-stuck-in-read-only-as-of-nov-8-9-22am-cst-c41df1a58352 Introducing Team Radar Retrospectives in Retrium https://blog.retrium.com/introducing-team-radar-retrospectives-in-retrium

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface – Build, Test, and Debug Serverless Apps Locally https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-serverless-application-model-sam-command-line-interface-build-test-and-debug-serverless-apps-locally/ Why Transparency in Business Matters (and How to Get Started) https://open.buffer.com/transparency-in-business/ IBM to Acquire Linux Distributor Red Hat for $33.4 Billion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to-acquire-software-maker-red-hat Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/introducing-recaptcha-v3-new-way-to.html HBR: A Quick Introduction to Agile Management https://hbr.org/video/4846148015001/a-quick-introduction-to-agile-management GitHub: October 21 post-incident analysis https://blog.github.com/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/ What is Your Password? https://youtu.be/opRMrEfAIiI Buying Used Voting Machines on eBay https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/buying_used_vot.html Moving to three-person engineering teams https://medium.com/do-not-erase/moving-to-three-person-engineering-teams-bcf599670c2a ...

Schneier: West Virginia Using Internet Voting https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/west_virginia_u.html Facebook: Open-sourcing StateService: Automating recovery of third-party services after a major outage https://code.fb.com/open-source/stateservice/ How to counteract 3 types of bias and run inclusive meetings https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/how-to-run-inclusive-meetings Welcome to WebPerl! https://webperl.zero-g.net/ Fowler: The State of Agile Software in 2018 https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html Dark Scrum https://ronjeffries.com/articles/016-09ff/defense/ Devex: Using the ’lean startup’ methodology to optimize for impact https://www.devex.com/news/using-the-lean-startup-methodology-to-optimize-for-impact-93702 GDPR: Good for privacy, even better for Google’s dominance https://boingboing.net/2018/10/18/briar-patches-r-us.html Capacity planning for Etsy’s web and API clusters https://codeascraft.com/2018/10/23/capacity-planning-for-etsys-web-and-api-tiers/ Discontinuing support for Android Nearby Notifications https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/discontinuing-support-for-android.html

Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+ https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/ The new and improved Jira Software Cloud and GitHub integration https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/github-for-jira Why don’t we add a element to HTML? https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2018/why-so-hard-to-add-new-html-elements/ Control Flow Integrity in the Android kernel https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/posted-by-sami-tolvanen-staff-software.html Git Submodule Vulnerability Announced https://blog.github.com/2018-10-05-git-submodule-vulnerability/ AppSignal: Improved Navigation https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/10/08/improved-navigation.html LWN: What’s a CPU to do when it has nothing to do? https://lwn.net/Articles/767630/ Peeling back the curtain: How the Economist is opening the data behind our reporting https://medium.economist.com/peeling-back-the-curtain-487bd3be0c47 ...

Schneier: Chinese Supply Chain Hardware Attackhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/chinese_supply_.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond Computing comfortably at 30,000 feethttps://mgsloan.com/posts/comfortable-airplane-computing/ How Etsy Handles Peeking in A/B Testinghttps://codeascraft.com/2018/10/03/how-etsy-handles-peeking-in-a-b-testing/ Schneier: The Effects of GDPR’s 72-Hour Notification Rulehttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/the_effects_of_5.html Introducing Action Text for Rails 6 https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/10/3/introducing-action-text-for-rails-6/ How to Hold a Hackathon (When No One’s in the Same Room)https://open.buffer.com/hackathon/ Why Reducing Nonprofit Employee Turnover Will Better Your Good Causehttps://getlighthouse.com/blog/nonprofit-employee-turnover-reducing/ Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2https://githubengineering.com/upgrading-github-from-rails-3-2-to-5-2/ Schneier: Conspiracy Theories Around the “Presidential Alert”https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/conspiracy_theo_2.html If you sometimes feel left out at work, you’re doing it righthttps://qz.com/work/1412529/fomo-is-not-a-useful-concept-at-work/