Aakriti Singla and Simon Wu from Uber’s engineering team wrote a story on how they created an infrastructure that manages payments and deals with more than 18 million daily requests.

The approach they took is impressive by itself, but if you’ve ever worked on a complex payment system, you’d appreciate this story even more.

Sudeep Chauhan wrote a story on how Google charged his company account $72.000 instead of $100 for their Firebase test.

Their bill kept growing by thousands of dollars in minutes and it didn’t appear to be stopping. They almost went bankrupt. It’s an interesting read.

Bill Taylor - a co-founder of Fast Company, explains how to look at failure as an opportunity for more success. He studied how some of the most popular CEOs like Jeff Bezos, Reed Hastings, and James Quincey learned from their failures.

You’d definitely want to read this one.

I put together an interesting story on how company leaders should approach building a culture that empowers engineers.

Autonomy, Transparency, and Impact are some of the key ingredients that one should cherish to make a strong engineering culture.

Check it out, I’m sure it’ll give you a unique perspective.

Erin Rabinovich wrote a nice story showing a few ways that can help engineering leaders, founders, or senior developers increase their team’s success and decrease failures.

The article talks about six rules of running successful KPIs, how to set easy-to-achieve goals, improving leadership skills, and more.

A must-read for all leaders.

Let me tell you one secret - never take a long pause. The author includes a few other tips on what to do and what not to do. Much of it has a lot to do with mentality, not coding.

No, the article won’t finish the project for you, but it’ll definitely inspire you.

Remote work has completely changed our lives. Companies are benefiting from the situation too as with the open economy they can hire globally.

This article contains some super interesting stats and insights on where remote work is heading in.

AWS re:invent undoubtedly became the #1 tech event worldwide. Andy Jassy the CEO of AWS will open the January session with a keynote presentation. There are 240 sessions lined up on different topics I’m sure you’d enjoy.