personal archive

Here I gather development articles I read, libraries I find interesting, conferences I go, etc.

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How to build business relationships in a virtual world - Work Life by Atlassian

The rules of building relationships in business changed with the large-scale shift to remote work. Here's how to foster rapport in a digital environment.

Be reliable: when you say you’re going to do something, do you stand up and make sure it happens? Be a resource: Being a resource starts with understanding the other person’s goals and the obstacles standing in their way. To do that, you have to start by asking questions. Remove obstacles: then, equipped with that understanding, proactively offer to help remove the obstacles

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Los principios DevOps: The Three Ways - Arragonán - Dani Latorre

En los últimos tiempos ha explotado la popularidad del término DevOps. Que va más allá de despliegues automatizados o ser la forma moderna de llamar a los ad...

The First Way: aumentar el flujo de entrega al cliente previniendo defectos.

The Second Way: amplificar los ciclos de feedback para prevenir problemas y mejorar la calidad en origen.

The Third Way: crear y fomentar una cultura de experimentación y aprendizaje continuos

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Technical Skills Are Overrated. Focus on Your Attitude.

People skills are essential for long-term success

‘Employees with soft skills provide leverage to a team. They don’t just contribute their work; they also improve their co-workers’ efforts. They inspire colleagues to stay on the team longer, which adds to institutional knowledge, improving productivity even more’

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All Hands on Deck - Slack Engineering

This story speaks to the process behind incident response at Slack and uses the May 12th, 2020 outage as an example. For a deeper technical review of the same outage, read Laura Nolan’s post, “A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack” Slack is a critical tool for millions of people, so it’s natural when …

“The cornerstone of every incident response process is the Feedback Loop: a system of failure, remediation, learning and repair that allows engineering teams to apply targeted pressure at problem areas to ensure that incidents don’t recur. The remediation has been completed here, thus begins the learning.”

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Leveraging Mobile Infrastructure with Data-Driven Decisions

TL;DR The pursuit wasn’t always easy, but “putting data first” has helped Spotify dramatically improve the infrastructure team’s decision-making process while improving company productivity. Raul Herbster describes the benefits, especially for mobile DevOps teams. Unsurprisingly, good infrastruc

‘This is where DevOps comes in. Put simply, it closes the gap between the developer and IT-infrastructure functions within an organization, improving productivity and giving developers more time to focus on quality’

‘We have focused our efforts on putting “data first” and using it to drive business decisions, with thrilling results’

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How to offer effective manager feedback - Work Life by Atlassian

Sharing feedback or constructive criticism with your boss can be challenging. Follow this advice to offer manager feedback that’s helpful—and not hurtful.

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Macroservices vs. Microservices vs. Serverless: the story of a modern solution architect

3 words. That's all they are, but they pretty much sum up the world of modern software development. It wasn’t very long ago that Service…

‘It is worth adding that just 15 years ago the fundamental idea behind microservices was an anti pattern’

‘Without people you don’t have a role so keeping them central in your mind is core to your success or failure’

‘Don’t burn bridges, be they technical or political. Without the business behind you you won’t know where the value is, without the team you won’t deliver any value and without the users there is no value to be delivered.’

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Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals

“The Spotify model” got a bunch of companies talking like Taylor Swift about startup culture, but four former Spotify employees reveal the truth: its eponymous way of working failed before it scaled.

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bliki: TechnicalDebt

Technical Debt is a metaphor for the consequences of cruft. You either have to accept a drag on further features (paying interest) or fix the software (paying the principal)

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Who framed Roger Rabbit? Talking about Software Development is about using frames. The prevalent "Backlog" frame is bad for the company and bad for developers.

Also interesting concept of “Product debt” on opposition of “Technical debt”

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What it Means to be a Remote-First Company | Stack Overflow

Interested in working for a remote-first company? See what these remote employees are saying about their roles and interactions with their colleagues.

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Agile Team Organisation: Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds

Agile Team Organisation: Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds

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How to run your first meeting as a new manager

Whether you’re a first-time manager or are taking over a new team, here’s how to approach that first meeting with your team.

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What I learned from shutting up in meetings - Work Life by Atlassian

Never leave a meeting knowing the same things you knew entering. Listen up, create a safe environment and fall in love with solving for the customer.

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How to offer effective manager feedback - Work Life by Atlassian

Sharing feedback or constructive criticism with your boss can be challenging. Follow this advice to offer manager feedback that’s helpful—and not hurtful.

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OKR vs KPIs, What is the Difference?

People are always asking me about the difference between an OKR and a KPI, so I decided to write about it.

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Using protocol compositon for dependency injection

Leveraging protocol composition for more maintainable dependency injection