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December 13 · Issue #17 · View online
Weekly Readings on Software Engineering & Technical Leadership.
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Welcome to CTO Insights #17! This week’s favorite - 4 Signs You’re Building A World-Class Team, Building What People Love, and more.
Special thanks this week to: Davor Minchorov, Ivica Jangelovski, and Katerina Trajchevsksa for your support for last week’s newsletter - vital to keeping it going for everyone else to read!
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Popular Metadata Architectures Explained
As an engineer who’s worked on various projects at LinkedIn and PayPal, Shirshanka Das is definitely suited to explain a few things about popular metadata architectures. Putting metadata to work is harder than just putting metadata together. He talks about the benefits and downsides of first, second, and third-generation architecture, and much more. It’s a detailed explanation and a must read. |
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Improve Database Performance with Connection Pooling
Michael Aboagye shares an expert view on how to efficiently improve and s cale database performance with connection pooling. The article contains a comparison between scaling database performance with and without connection pooling. Read more on what you should consider when choosing the best connection pooler and why. |
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4 Signs You’re Building A World-Class Team
This is a story you don’t want to miss. Pete Flint talks about how how to build a world-class team - the same principles helped him grow Trulia from 0 to over 1000 employees and achieve a $3.5 billion valuation. When I was building Trulia, I had to quickly learn a counterintuitive truth: in company building, the team is the product… and the best product will win.
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Evolving as a Founder CTO
Miguel Carranza is a founder who invested a lot of time figuring out what it really means to be a CTO. After talking to a lot of founder CTOs, there was something clear: there is no standard definition for the CTO role.
He compares findings from journaling his progress throughout the years, coming to a few conclusions that every CTO should definitely read. |
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Building What People Love
Tori Huang - a Software Engineer at Gusto shares some details on how to deliver features that customers love and always use outcome-based numbers to make decisions. Not using this strategy (or a similar approach) has been the main reason why many companies failed. This is the first part of the story, looking forward to the second one! |
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What’s Next for Remote Work - Research Based on 2,000 Tasks, 800 Jobs, and Nine Countries
This analysis by McKinsey contains a detailed chart on which activities in which branches have the highest potential to be performed remotely. An exciting comparison between everything from agriculture to finance and insurance, and more. The potential for remote work is determined by tasks and activities, not occupations.
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All the Ways Slack Tracks You (and How to Stop It)
A great story on how to boost security on Slack! 😱 It’s not that easy for someone to snoop on your Slack messages. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take precautions!? Matt Burges talks about slack’s data collection and shares some details on what your boss can and can’t see🕵️
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Podcast with David Heinemeier Hansson - Inventor of Ruby on Rails & CTO at Basecamp & Hey
Tobi Schlottke from alphalist interviewed David Heinemeier Hansson (the inventor of Ruby on Rails, CTO of Basecamp & HEY, NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winning racing driver) as a part of his podcast series. I gave up on programming at six years old - That’s how David Heinemeier Hansson begins his story in this chat with Tobi that covered a range of topics, including how David discovered Ruby, why the 60-hour workweek is a stupid lie, and how he and Jason Fried have successfully managed Basecamp since 1999. A great discussion between two truly successful entrepreneurs you don’t want to miss. |
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