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January 10 · Issue #21 · View online
Weekly Readings on Software Engineering & Technical Leadership.
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Welcome to CTO Insights #21!
Special thanks this week to: Frederico Castro, Mephi Liu, 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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Consistent Core, by Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler’s approach for proper management of clusters presents quite an interesting read. Maintain a smaller cluster providing stronger consistency to allow large data cluster to coordinate server activities without implementing quorum based algorithms. Metadata storage, handling client interactions, dealing with duplicate requests, and helpful examples, it’s all there to make your life a bit easier.
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Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
This is the first volume of Martin Fowler‘s new series, introducing his framework for maximizing developer effectiveness. As a developer, effectiveness means delivering the maximum value to your customers. The story has pointers, comparisons, and real-life case studies to help you maximize effectiveness. Stay tuned for the next releases. I’ll be probably including all of them.
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Here is Why Mental Health Will be Critical in the Future of Work
This post dives deep into the concept of mental health and explains how it can be critical in the future of work. A must-read for leaders. Mental health is a combination of our emotional, social, and psychological well-being, which determines our relationships and contributes to our work. When it comes down to reducing burnouts, maximizing performance, or a similar problem, a great leader can help improve mental health and solve these problems for their team - read how.
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Developer Happiness and the Benefits That Come With It
According to research (and a bit of common sense), happy software developers are much more productive, write better code, and make overall better decisions. We should look at programming as a human activity, not just a mathematical, scientific, or technological one. This article focuses on increasing developer satisfaction and productivity and reveals four crucial categories of measuring their happiness.
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How to Stop Having So Many Remote Meetings
Let’s hop on a quick call. The number of internal meetings has skyrocketed with the remote work. Darren Chait ( COO of Hugo), shares how it might be too much. All those “quick questions,” “ideas I wanted to share,” and “watercooler conversations” were now transformed into team meetings. In this article, he talks about four ways to improve remote meeting culture and stop wasting time by having highly effective meetings.
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Want to Start a Startup, as a Software Engineer? Sell Something Online.
This is the story of what Gergely Orosz learned when he started selling his first-ever ebook. How is this relevant to starting a Startup? No matter how good your product is, people won’t “come” and get it, even if it’s free. 🤯 Selling a product online taught Gergerly a lot about launching a business. It’s not easy to sell something, let alone starting a profitable business. If you are a software engineer, his story is a must-read before you launch your startup.
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The CTO’s Framework for Delivering Secure Software Applications
Delivering secure applications will always be a priority for strong teams. Our CTO Insider Dragan Ilievski ( a cyber-security specialist) put together a framework that will make sure you level up your security. The framework talks about how to:
- plan security requirements from all aspects of all projects.
- deliver safe and maintained products while leaving room for improvement.
- get better estimates of the ROI.
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Companies Are Rushing to Use AI—but Only a Few See a Payoff
Even though companies like DHL are highly benefiting from using Artificial Intelligence, 89% of companies implementing it aren’t getting their desired results, many are even losing a lot.
Will Knight’s story discusses what is it that makes some companies profit from AI, and others get a horrible return on investment by examining how DHL takes advantage. We’re seeing that this blending of humans and machines is where companies are performing well - DHL
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2020 year in review: Connectivity innovations, faster apps, and progress toward net zero
Whether it was open-sourcing their NTP libraries, developing a cell tower to bring connectivity to rural areas, or using advanced robots to install fiber optic cables, (despite all of the scandals) Facebook has achieved a lot in the past year. This is their wrap up of some of their biggest achievements and stories throughout 2020. Hopefully, 2021 will bring much more.
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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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