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Issue #687
Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders
Tuesday 3rd February issue is presented by Unleash
Join Alex Casalboni (Developer Advocate @ Unleash) for a deep dive on how to design resilient AI workflows to make reversibility a foundational mechanism and release AI-generated code with confidence.
AI writes code in seconds, but reviews take hours. Don't let this gap slow you down.
Join our webinar to learn how FeatureOps helps you manage risk, contain blast radius, and maintain control over fast-moving agentic workflows.
tl;dr: “If you are a senior engineer or PM or designer, you should own a graph. One of the quickest ways to get better at your job is to own a graph. There are many ways to do work that don’t matter and there are many ways to do work that matters but fail to articulate that value well. Owning a graph solves both of these problems.”
Leadership Management
— Mike Fisher
tl;dr: “Over the years, I’ve come to believe that speed in business is often misunderstood. We talk about it as if it’s a single dial you can just turn up, move faster, ship quicker, decide sooner. In practice, speed is an outcome, not an instruction. It’s something that emerges when a few underlying forces are working together.”
Leadership Management
— Alex Casalboni
tl;dr: Join Alex Casalboni (Developer Advocate @ Unleash) for a deep dive on how to design resilient AI workflows to make reversibility a foundational mechanism and release AI-generated code with confidence. AI writes code in seconds, but reviews take hours. Don't let this gap slow you down. Join our webinar to learn how FeatureOps helps you manage risk, contain blast radius, and maintain control over fast-moving agentic workflows.
Promoted by Unleash
Agents Event
— Will Larson
tl;dr: “It’s easy for managers to get into a mode where they are managing the stuff around reality, without managing reality itself. That is much harder when engineers who write and maintain the company’s software are in the room, which is the biggest benefit of including them.”
Leadership Management
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
— Leonardo Borges
tl;dr: “In 2025 I read 21 books and while some were absolute duds, five really made me think. Here are my top reads of 2025.”
Books
tl;dr: You're spending 40 hours a week writing code that AI could do in 10. 150k+ engineers at OpenAI, Google & Meta read The Code to learn which AI tools work and how to use them. Get AI coding techniques from top engineers, workflows that cut your time in half, and tech insights 6 months ahead. Sign up & Get the Ultimate Claude Code Guide to automate 60% of repetitive coding tasks. Join 150K+ engineers.
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CareerAdvice
tl;dr: “Uber prioritizes a reliable data lake, which is distributed across on-premise and cloud environments. This multi-region setup presents challenges for ensuring reliable and timely data access due to limited network bandwidth and the need for seamless data availability, particularly for disaster recovery.”
Architecture Data
— Addy Osmani
tl;dr: “Aim for a clear spec covering just enough nuance to guide the AI without overwhelming it. Break large tasks into smaller ones vs. keeping everything in one large prompt. Plan first in read-only mode, then execute and iterate continuously.”
Agents
— Austin Henley
tl;dr: “I talk to a lot of students and professional developers that often want to start a side project, but aren't sure what to build. Below is a handful of software projects that taught me a lot. In fact, they're great because you could build them multiple times and learn new things each time. So whenever I don't know what to build or I want to learn a new programming language or framework, I start with one these.”
CareerAdvice
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Notable Links
Apptron: Local-first development platform.
Claude-Supermemory: AI persistent memory across sessions.
Dash: Self-learning data agent.
PageIndex: Vectorless, reasoning-based RAG.
Slidev: Presentation slides for developers.
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