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January 3 · Issue #20 · View online
Weekly Readings on Software Engineering & Technical Leadership.
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Welcome to CTO Insights #20!
I hope you are all enjoying the first Sunday morning in 2021! Wishing you a happy, truly successful New Year to you, and your family. May all your dreams come true, and all your hopes are fulfilled! 🎊🎊🎊 I took some time to reflect and analyze how things got developed with CTO Insights, last year and I was amazed by some of the stats - thank you all. One of the things I figured out is that the majority of the audience is technical founders and/or engineers with an interest in entrepreneurship. That is why, as of this issue, I’m introducing a new section - Entrepreneurship.
This week’s favorite: What Happens When the 1% Go Remote, 23 Effective Ways to Motivate Employees, and more.
Special thanks this week to: Ivica Peshovski and Katerina Trajchevska for their support for last week’s newsletter - vital to keeping it going for everyone else to read!
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Why the Serverless Revolution Has Stalled?
Serverless computing can be quite helpful when it comes to saving money and time, improved security, scalability, and even green computing. So why has the Serverless Revolution stalled? 🤔 This article has a unique perspective on the topic and will give you four reasons why serverless can’t become a complete replacement for servers.
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Optimally Scaling Kafka Consumer Applications
Less than a year ago, the engineering team at Grab shared their journey of building their event sourcing and stream processing network. They now service around 400 billion weekly events.
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I’m Stepping Down as CEO Due to My Mental Health—and I Want to Talk About It
Matthew Cooper ( CEO and co-founder of EarnUp) has been balancing mental illness and a successful career for more than 20 years. He recently made a hard choice to step down as CEO of his tech company. No one should feel shame about discussing their mental health issues or seeking the support needed to live safely and joyfully. Mental health shouldn’t be a taboo, it’s great technology leaders started talking about it.
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What Happens When the 1% Go Remote
Miami and Austin are becoming the next big tech hubs. With remote work becoming mainstream, there’ll be a huge shift happening in the economies. For example, when the billionaire hedge funder David Tepper left New Jersey for Miami in 2015, he left a crater in New Jersey’s budget that experts estimate was upwards of $100 million annually 🤯 It doesn’t take very many ultra-wealthy Americans changing their address to wreak havoc on cities’ finances. This is one of the best stories I’ve run across. It is a must-read. |
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The Health of Your Business Depends on the Health of Your Engineering Team
According to recent research, companies with high-performing engineering teams out-perform their competitors in revenue growth, customer satisfaction, and brand perception.
Hillary Nussbaum shares that in the beginning, measuring your engineering team’s work speed and value delivered will set you on the path to improvement. Read about her tips in detail here. |
23 Freakishly Effective Ways to Motivate Employees
Unmotivated employees are highly likely to accomplish significantly less than they’re able to. You have probably seen certain employees deliver stunning results at first, but then start slacking. This mainly has to do with lack of motivation and this insightful article from SnackNation has found 23 interesting ways to bring back the motivation to your workers and start delivering outstanding results. |
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A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process
If you’re in the early stages of creating your MVP, then this article will save you a lot of time and effort. There are too many risky assumptions to be made when it comes to an MVP. Waiting to test out those assumptions at the end, after months of work might backfire. This great article will introduce you to looking at the MVP as a process, not as a product.
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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About GitHub
The title of this article couldn’t be more literal. It contains genuinely everything you’re ever going to need to know about Github. Drawing from over 3.1 billion records, everything you could possibly be wondering about regarding Github and its ecosystem is presented here, in a structured format.
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Reddit Claims 52 Million Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
Coincidently or not, Reddit’s daily users have risen by 44% this year, averaging them to 52 million daily users, after they began their pursuit to bring new advertisers to the platform. Reddit now has plans to increase ad revenue and its head-count by up to 75% over the course of 2021. That’s not all the changes they’re planning to make and Sahil Patel will brief you on the rest of Reddit’s plan. |
The future of DevOps: 21 predictions for 2021
The predictions you’re about to see in this article are coming from 21 DevOps Pros and Industry luminaries. As companies accelerate their digital transformations, culture, leadership, and team dynamics will continue to shift; security and DevSecOps will be more critical than ever. Find out what these 21 predictions are and a brief explanation about each of them here. |
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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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