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Australian actor advocates trying hard, but not too hard – if you operate at 85% capacity you’ll be more relaxed and perform better

Staying Ahead: Embrace the Power of Proactive Health In an era characterised by technological advancement and innovation, our lives have been transformed in many ways....

Intuition plays an important role in decision making, but it can be dangerously unreliable in complicated situations. A new set of analytical tools can help you leverage your instinct without being sabotaged by its weaknesses.

Burnout can impact our mental health, make us feel more stressed, and drain our energy. Read more about coping with burnout, and how it can affect us.

Don't play games you don't want to win.

The 20-year journey of Ben Chestnut, founder of MailChimp

As we are about to start the planning meetings for 2024 at AWS, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I take notes.

It seems like we need to make a constant choice between our personal and professional and personal growth. But is it truly a zero-sum game?

In the xkcd comic Working, a man is seen filling up his gas tank. "Why are you going here", says the observer, "Gas is ten cents a gallon cheaper at the station five minutes that way". He responds "B…

Shopify’s director of production engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things

During the boom times, I launched a start-up so I could become rich. Years later, I’m still looking for my exit.

When your boss loves you, you have options. Here's how to help your manager get what they need, so you get what you want.

I’ve seen so many senior engineers struggle with these skills during technical interviews related to system design, whiteboarding and practical coding. Master these to standout!

A quote from NVIDIA’s Huang in a recent interview: You want to position yourself near opportunities. You don’t have to be that perfect. You want to position yourself near the tree. Even if you don’t catch the apple before it hits the ground, so long as you’re the first one to pick it up. You want to position yourself close to the opportunities. That’s kind of a lot of my work, is positioning the company near opportunities, and the company having the skills to monetize each one of the steps alo

I remember back when being on one of those gigantic, long-lived software projects when I was a wee programmer. Professional project managers had laid out the entire thing before we started coding. Enlightened professional project managers—they only assumed 4.2 hours of coding per programmer per day.

Read inspiring interviews with successful self-taught developers and bootcamp grads. Find your Junior Software Engineer job with our job board.

Instead of niching yourself into a prison, find the questions that bring you alive, and live them.

Site Reliability Engineering, incident management, learning, lessons learned, SRE

Research from Google and others sheds light on the easiest path to cutting cycle time.

Programming lessons I’ve learnt over the last 7 years.