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October 25 · Issue #10 · View online
Weekly Readings on Software Engineering & Technical Leadership.
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Welcome to CTO Insights #10! This week’s favorite - What Silicon Valley “Gets” about software engineers that traditional companies don’t? 🤔
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How LinkedIn's "People You May Know" AI algorithm works.
Curious to know how LinkedIn selects the people in the “People You May Know” section on your LinkedIn profile?
Read more on how they built a heterogeneous recommendation system using AI. P.S I was looking around to find how Facebook’s AI works for a comparison (as I think it is super advanced), but I couldn’t find anything. Any information!? Send it my way!
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Scaling Live streaming for millions of viewers
There were 7.2 million concurrent viewers on the UEFA Champions League through Facebook Live earlier this year. This story talks about some of the approaches FB’s engineering team took to create a technology of that scale. Their next big milestone will be streaming this New Year’s Eve. Read more on how they plan to approach that. |
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What Silicon Valley "Gets" about software engineers that traditional companies Do Not
Quite interesting observation by Gergely Orosz on the differences between Silicon Valley companies and “Traditional Companies” as he refers them. I won’t comment on this story - it is a must read for each of you! |
Why to Start Public Speaking as a Manager in Tech
Kendra Little works as a DevOps Advocate at Redgate. She is encouraging tech leaders to embrace public speaking to grow themselves and help others grow. I attend a fair amount of tech conferences, and there’s often something missing: talks from managers and leadership in tech. As I’m joining her initiative, if any of you have ideas but wasn’t brave enough (or didn’t get a chance) - drop me a note, I’ll help🤞
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The commitment: Bringing diverse voices to tech conferences
I’m sure you’ve noticed - almost all of the tech conferences are paying a lot of attention on bringing diverse voices on stage. Sarah Taraporewalla wrote a story on what steps they took and the commitment they made at ThoughtWorks to create equal representation on their annual tech event. An interesting reading on how each company should embrace diversity. |
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Failing over with falling over
We’ve all played a disaster recovery scenario, but let’s be real - it is not real. Once upon a time, in theory, if everything works perfectly, we have a plan to survive the disasters we thought of in advance. So, what do we do when failovers fail?
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CTO Connection Online: Improving engineering processes
Peter Bell and his team at CTO Connect are organizing an online summit for tech leaders on Improving Engineering Processes. Register here. Nov 10th - Nov 11th, Online
Costs $295 - email me for a FREE pass.
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