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GitHub - brandur/heroku-http-api-design: The Heroku HTTP API Design Guide, forked to look more like its original pre-GitBook state with a more easily digestible single-page format.
GitHub - brandur/heroku-http-api-design: The Heroku HTTP API Design Guide, forked to look more like its original pre-GitBook state with a more easily digestible single-page format.
The Heroku HTTP API Design Guide, forked to look more like its original pre-GitBook state with a more easily digestible single-page format. - GitHub - brandur/heroku-http-api-design: The Heroku HTT...
·github.com·
GitHub - brandur/heroku-http-api-design: The Heroku HTTP API Design Guide, forked to look more like its original pre-GitBook state with a more easily digestible single-page format.
Running in Circles
Running in Circles
Why Agile Isn’t Working and What We Do Differently UPDATE: We’ve written an entire book on this topic! Read it online: Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters. Agile star…
·m.signalvnoise.com·
Running in Circles
Real World Recommendation System - Part 1
Real World Recommendation System - Part 1
Training a collaborative filtering based recommendation system on a toy dataset is a sophomore year project in colleges these days. But where the rubber meets the road is building such a system at scale, deploying in production, and serving live requests within a few hundred milliseconds while the user is waiting for the page to load. To build a system like this, engineers have to make decisions spanning multiple moving layers like:
·blog.fennel.ai·
Real World Recommendation System - Part 1
Exit Interviews Are a Trap - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Exit Interviews Are a Trap - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
It’s tempting to air your grievances at your exit interview. Don’t. There’s almost no upside to speaking up, and tremendous potential downside. Avoid exit interviews if you can. If you must go, be totally bland; say nothing negative.
·jacobian.org·
Exit Interviews Are a Trap - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make
The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make
Throughout my career, the biggest mistake I see engineers make is doing too much work on their own before looping in others.   I’ve experienced this mistake as both an IC and a manager. A…
·thezbook.com·
The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make
20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]
·simplethread.com·
20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
Postgres Full-Text Search: A Search Engine in a Database
Postgres Full-Text Search: A Search Engine in a Database
With Postgres, you don't need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven't yet given Postgres' built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro.
·blog.crunchydata.com·
Postgres Full-Text Search: A Search Engine in a Database
Read the essay Shopify's CEO sent to managers to remind them they are a sports team, not a family. It shows the growing tension between leaders and employees in the corporate world.
Read the essay Shopify's CEO sent to managers to remind them they are a sports team, not a family. It shows the growing tension between leaders and employees in the corporate world.
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke told managers to help employees stay focused but "poor performance and divisiveness cannot be tolerated."
·businessinsider.com·
Read the essay Shopify's CEO sent to managers to remind them they are a sports team, not a family. It shows the growing tension between leaders and employees in the corporate world.