Weekly Readings on Software Engineering & Technical Leadership.
Welcome to CTO Insights #14!
This week’s favorite - Talking Privacy?! What Are The Companies That Use Most of Your Data? 💥
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Learn more about how Facebook built a ubiquitous shared infrastructure to reduce hardware, development, and operational costs at scale.
If you are dealing with limited scalability and inability to support workload-specific customization with the existing cluster management systems this is a must read.
P.S. You want to dive deeper, check FB’s announcement of Twine here.
Sarah White shares 10 of the most appealing tech leadership development programs. Some of the programs are supported by universities (MIT, Cornell) but there are couple of them organized by companies like Microsoft, CityBank, etc.
Did you attend any programs that helped you level up as a CTO/VP of Engineer? I’d love to learn more!
This story contains an extremely detailed view on how losing focus can cost companies a lot and what are the biggest reasons for loss of focus at the workplace or anywhere else.
The shift to working from home has mostly been positive for knowledge workers, but the challenges reveal a $1.2 trillion opportunity.
This is a must read for everyone working remotely.
This is an incredible story on how Mite Mitreski (Director of Engineering at Klarna) approaches interviewing engineers.
He talks about some of the lessons learned supporting Klarna’s massive growth over the last few years (from ~240 engineers in 2015 to over 1400 now). A must read.
These folks analysed 48 apps to see which permissions they asked consumers for in their terms and conditions and privacy agreements. They put together a list and named it - Big brother brands report.
Big brother brands report: which companies track our personal data the most?
No surprises about who is on the top of the list, but there are couple of companies I didn’t expect to see there.
P.S. You can use the list to perform top-down “review account and delete” process :)
One of the best things for improving engineering efficiency is helping our team fellows manage their time better.
I know you’ve read at least 25 stories on time management, but this one is a bit different. There are not only actionable tips you can implement right away, but it talks about personalities as well.
Our friends at CTO Craft are organizing this event named The People One. There will be some of the world’s greatest senior engineering figureheads from companies like GitHub, YouTube, Headspace, and CircleCI speaking on topics like managing people, teams and culture.
Dec 1st - Dec 3rd, Online
Costs £114 - email me for a Discounted pass.
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