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Issue #583
Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders
Tuesday 21st January’s issue is presented by Datadog
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— Will Larson
tl;dr: "Will covers: (1) Why strategy documents need to be clear and definitive, especially when strategy development has been messy How to iterate on strategy when there are demands for unrealistic timelines. (2) Using strategy as non-executives, where others might override your strategy. (3) Handling dynamic, quickly changing environments where diagnosis can change frequently. (4) Working with indecisive stakeholders who don’t provide clarity on approach. (5) Surviving other people’s bad strategy work. "
Leadership Management
— Lizzie Matusov
tl;dr: Key findings include: (1) Performance and productivity are impacted by interruptions, in nuanced ways. (2) The type of task, and type of interruption, changes the stress associated with an interruption. (3) Perception and physiological data don’t always align. Lizzie elaborates on each.
Leadership Management
tl;dr: Accelerate your time to resolution and build resilience into your systems with this simple 4-step approach. This guide outlines critical best practices for ensuring your organization’s response to incidents is as efficient and effective as possible.
Promoted by Datadog
Tips DevOps
— Nikunj Kothari
tl;dr: “Getting good at these hard things doesn't make life easier—it makes you responsible for harder problems. But that's the point. Everyone faces difficult decisions. The difference is those who built this muscle early get to choose which hard problems they want to solve. Everyone else takes whatever hard problems life hands them. Start before life gets complex—before each new responsibility makes every risk feel heavier.”
CareerAdvice
“Leadership is influence.”
— Moncef Abboud
tl;dr: “What is compression? We represent data using bytes (1 byte = 8 bits). The more bits we have, the more storage space we need and the longer the transmission time. If we can represent some data with fewer bits, we can save on both storage and time it takes to process or transmit. So compression translates to cost savings and better performance. And at scale, we are talking about millions of $.”
DeepDive Algo
tl;dr: Accelerate your time to resolution and build resilience into your systems with this simple 4-step approach. This guide outlines critical best practices for ensuring your organization’s response to incidents is as efficient and effective as possible.
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Tips DevOps
— Jim Nielsen
tl;dr: Jim discusses the importance of thoughtful URL design, showcasing how URLs can be more than just web addresses. He highlights examples like StackOverflow, where URLs balance computer and human needs by combining a unique identifier with an optional human-readable slug. Jim also mentions Slack's marketing campaign, which cleverly integrated storytelling into URLs. He points out how GitHub and NPM use URLs that map to their domain semantics, providing intuitive navigation and shortcuts for users.
Design URL
— Grady Salzman
tl;dr: “Let’s dive into three features of Copilot I use everyday to increase my productivity and write better code: Copilot Edits, workplace contexts, and customizing Copilot for your workspace.”
Productivity
— Brooke Kuhlmann
tl;dr: “Git trailers are a powerful source of metadata as parsed by the Git Interpret Trailers command. Even better, trailers can be applied to commits and tags. Unfortunately, trailers are severely underutilized so I’d like to show you why they are important and how you can make the most of them to improve your workflow.”
Git
Most Popular From Last Issue
How I Program With LLMs — David Crawshaw
Notable Links
Awesome Speaking: Resources about public speaking.
Cobalt: Best way to save what you love.
Dokplay: OS alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.
Maxun: OS no code web data extraction platform.
OSV: OS vulnerability DB and triage service.
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