It seems Facebook knows me more than my wife. Even though I’m using Newsfeed Extractor (you should do too), I’m fascinated by the way they achieved personalization.

In this post, they talk about how they use machine learning to come up with the perfect feed for each of their 2 billion+ users.

P.S Yes, they use PHP 😱. Read the entire story here.

Over the past year, Github had doubled the number of engineers in their team. This caused a lot of issues in the way they deploy the tools so they needed to improve fast! Good news, that affected most of us. 😇

In October 2020 they started a series on “Building GitHub”. This week they wrote a story on how they handle deployment -

BBC’s infrastructure reachers up to 60 million browsers a day, with their users requesting up to 20k pages per second - that is what most of us don’t have in a month 😀

The post tasks about how their engineering team approached optimizing serverless to improve customer experience.

Dave Bailey is a serial entrepreneur who has found an amazing way of making (and documenting) the most out of one-on-one meetings.

It’s a compelling list of tips and advice on how you (as the manager and leader) and your team can always benefit from these meetings.

If you have run at least one O3 meeting, you’d need to check this one.

Xero’s CTO, Mark Rees, has been taking advantage of prioritization frameworks to avoid being overwhelmed with work.

Chances are that you also have a lot on your plate, so having a look at his way of focusing on what matters can definitely help out.

We are all busy, one way or another. Check out these strategies, I’m sure they’ll get some of your time back.

While it’s true that OKRs have many benefits for improving products and businesses, Jeff Gothelf shares how you can use this tool to improve our personalities as well.

If you want to improve both professionally and personally, Jeff has a few unique tips that will get you there faster.

Setting and achieving goals has never been more efficient.

Based on a survey of 23,765 people in 137 countries, JavaScript shares one of the most detailed reviews of how 2020 went for the programming language.

You can view detailed reports on its performance throughout 2020 based on demographics, frameworks, features, data layers, platforms, and so much more.

View the full report here.

What’s the first thing that pops up in your head when you hear software engineering mastery? Usually, this relates to technical proficiency.

According to an intense discussion on Hackernews, it turns out that the term is much more complex. You’ll be amazed by all the areas that software engineering mastery is connected to.

Find out more.

A few years back, Google discovered that high-performing teams depend less on the members and more on team dynamics. Their findings are based on interviews with several hundred of their employees.

5 key characteristics always came into play.

Our CTO Insighter (and my partner) Katerina Trajchevska is hosting a Fireside chat with Muts Inayma - head of Product & Engineering at Imgur.

They’ll be talking about Imgur’s growing challenges, crucial tech decisions, future plans, and more.

Don’t miss out on hearing Imgur’s inside stories!

February, 10th, 5 pm UTC - Online