This article resonates a lot after doing more than a hundred interviews in the last few years. When it comes to recruitment there is always something more than just a technical assessment. future.com/building-trust…

In the effort to climb the imaginary career ladder to management positions, plenty of people forget that as an IC, there are many, many more career options than as managers. Or directors. For every manager, there are ~5-10 software engineers. For every director: ~30-50.

A great approach to solving issues in product & engineering teams. hagakure.substack.com/p/twh32-differ…

Exercising for 60 minutes is 4% of your day. Writing for 45 minutes is 3% of your day. Reading for 30 minutes is 2% of your day. Meditating for 15 minutes is 1% of your day. It doesn’t take much to get a little better every day.

Technical writing should be a required training for every engineering team. Many big corps mandate so many trainings for employees but the engineering workforce has little to no training on how to craft good design documents. Quality varies so wildly between teams.

In the era of rapid #CloudNative evolution, choosing the right #technology can be tough. Fortunately, Bartek Antoniak can help. In his new article, Bartek covers cloud-native technology that has passed evaluation and explains how to evaluate tools on your own:virtuslab.com/blog/evaluate-…

First ever entry on our blog is here! 🔥 The alignment problem in machine learning is a story about drifting away from people and their problems and gaining some distance. Follow us on our #machinelearning journey. Read more ⤵ #ai #aicommunity #MLOps cinnaroll.ai/blog/the-align…

After nearly 25 years, I’m publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto in its entirety, an internal document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of our e-commerce platform. allthingsdistributed.com/2022/11/amazon…

When it comes to cloud development lifecycle the infrastructure end to end testing is often a neglected area. This is based on observations from a variety of sources, including conversations with colleagues, interview sessions, etc. virtuslab.com/blog/end-to-en…

As promised, here is the full process thread for Ghostwriter - the #AI typewriter. A journey from idea to realization: The idea: With the exponential growth and emergence of a prolific number of AI products we see every day, I wanted to create a mindful intervention that (1/13)

Finally the time to realize a mature team of engineers can organize themselves without artificial processes.

Another interesting take on why heavy processes no longer work in software engineering. mikefisher.substack.com/p/principles-o…

The dream job is usually a pilot, writer, dancer or YouTuber. In Poland, we dream about being software developers. By remitly.com/gb/en/landing/… CC Dom Andrzejczuk

I have an announcement to make: after a long journey we have finally arrived at public preview of Besom - the Scala SDK for Pulumi! It's not a stable release yet but we've put considerable effort into making it pleasant to use and reliable as it is now in 0.1.0. Personally,

If you are interested in the subject of platform engineering, I'm starting a series of articles in this space. Covering technology, strategy and real-world examples of how successful companies invest in platform engineering. engineeringprimer.com/p/platform-eng…

I'm happy to share the first in a series of articles exploring how developer platforms benefit modern businesses. engineeringprimer.com/p/unveiling-su…

I put a few words together to describe my perspective on the nature of work in #platform #engineering. You'll find concepts such as platform engineering guiding the organisation, solving problems at scale, but also about breaking the rules. engineeringprimer.com/p/the-nature-o…

Money is a universal language that everyone understands. What is the value of an internal developer platform? It's hard to grasp something so theoretical, especially if this is your first attempt to define the value. engineeringprimer.com/p/the-economic…