Qulture Rocks is an online platform for Feedbacks, Performance Reviews, OKRs/Goals, 1:1s, and Development Plans for growing companies.

They are a YC company, working on developing a fully customizable Performance Management platform.

Check it out here.

Facebook spends billions yearly to keep its data centers up and running. Having so many servers, certain types of failers are to be expected.

This post talks about how exactly they manage to keep all of their hardware functional and reliable.

Business Complexity, Reliability, Operational Efficiency, and Maintainability, are four main areas where Netflix started experiencing issues as they grew.

As a result, they re-built their legacy SKU catalog from the ground up and set 4 core principles for the new one, including:

An incredible story with a detailed explanation of each step in the process.

A growing number of startups and big tech companies offer equity - stocks, options, and others - as part of software engineering compensation.

As most of the engineers have no idea how all of this works, Gergely took some time to educate us.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the pros and cons of accepting equity, then the article offers more than enough insights.

What makes or breaks a team? This is a question Tim Enwall will answer in this blog post.

Here’s a brief overview of the secrets hidden inside:

Recently, Facebook announced that they’ll be paying their remote workers based on where they live. 😲

Whether this is a good idea or not, someone is always going to come out a winner and someone a loser. If you want a bit more clarity on the matter, then I suggest reading what George Blackshaw has to say.

Dafna Rosenbum is the co-founder of a tech company. Her company has 30 engineers and none of them have levels. The first thing she does in her blog post is she tells us how this badly affects productivity.

Then, Dafna moves to the execution phase, revealing how to implement levels without risking decreasing productivity or even losing any of her valuable engineers.

Some of the most popular creators on Youtube and Tik-Tok like Charli D’Amelio and David Dobrik bring in millions of dollars annually while countless more creators struggle to barely get noticed.

Many struggle to bring in these numbers their entire lives. This post by Li Jin sparks a wonderful idea involving a middle class for creator platforms.

Read the rest of her story here.

Facebook creates the first AI system able to translate code from one programming language to another without requiring parallel data for training.

Read how they developed their TransCoder and learn more about the project. At the end of the article, you will also find that they’re releasing a test set to help others with evaluating code translation models. 🙏

Christie Lenneville (UX VP at GitLab) shares some great examples of improving user experience by fixing the little things that are hard to even notice. 🔍

These issues may be hard to notice, but they make a crucial difference in improving user experience and design. Have a look at what features Christie focuses on in this post.

You may even get a few ideas for improving your own projects.

In one of the previous CTO Insights issues, we talked about part 1 of the Problems with MVPs in Legacy Replacement. Part 2 dives deeper into the topic and reveals more insights on the following features:

That’s far from being it! Read the rest of part 2 here.

The first global Cisco Live event in 2021. They aim to bring all tech professionals together and inspire them.

The world is full of more possibilities than ever before, so let’s join together, take everything we have learned, and TURN IT UP.

March 31 - April 1, 2021- Online