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December 20 · Issue #18 · View online
Weekly Readings on Software Engineering & Technical Leadership.
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Welcome to CTO Insights #18! This week’s favorite - Architecting Uber’s payment system, A story of how a company almost went bankrupt testing Firebase on GCP and more.
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Revolutionizing Money Movements at Scale with Strong Data Consistency
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. A system like this should not only be robust, but should also be highly available with zero-tolerance to downtime. 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.
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A Company Burnt $72k Testing Firebase + Cloud Run and Almost Went Bankrupt
Sudeep Chauhan wrote a story on how Google charged his company account $72.000 instead of $100 for their Firebase test. After 5 minutes, the bill read $15,000, in 20 mins, it said $25,000. I wasn’t sure where it would stop. Perhaps it won’t stop? 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.
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How Coca-Cola, Netflix, and Amazon Improved by Failing
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. Too many leaders live in fear of mistakes, missteps, and disappointments. But if you’re not prepared to fail, you’re not prepared to learn. You’d definitely want to read this one.
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Building an Engineering Culture That Empowers Engineers
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.
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How to Measure and Improve Success in Your Engineering Team
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.
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Staying Focused to Finish Your Pet Project
Have you been thinking about how to get your pet project done? 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.
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Now That We Know Remote Works, What’s Next?
Remote work has completely changed our lives. Companies are benefiting from the situation too as with the open economy they can hire globally. Roughly 70% of white-collar workers are now working remotely 😱 This article contains some super interesting stats and insights on where remote work is heading in.
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AWS re:Invent | Amazon Web Services
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. Jan. 12 – 14 - Online Free Event
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