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March 21 · Issue #31 · View online
Weekly Readings on Software Engineering & Technical Leadership.
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Welcome to CTO Insights #31! The newsletter is based on top Software Engineering and Technical Leadership content from the past week, it is free and made for your weekly reading.
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This week’s favorite - Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure.
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Application Security Management Platform
Sqreen is a unified platform for developers to secure web applications. You can use it to level up security into applications with extensible modules for vulnerabilities and user protection.
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Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
This is the most comprehensive story on data infrastructure and data architecture I’ve ever come across. It covers super useful details about Modern Business Intelligence, Multimodal Data Processing and Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.
Data infrastructure is undergoing rapid, fundamental changes at an architectural level. Building out a modern data stack involves a diverse and ever-proliferating set of choices. Check it out here, it’s a must-read. |
The Engineers Guide to Event-Driven Architectures: Benefits and Challenges
The story is a part of an engineer’s guide to event-driven architecture series by Oskar uit de Bos. Event-driven architectures are becoming increasingly popular in the microservice space due to the scalability potential as well as it’s adaptability. In this story, Oskar gives a general overview of the event-drive architecture focusing on benefits and challenges.
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Rendering the Top 1M Pages to Find Out What Makes the Web Slow
An interesting analysis on discovering the reasons why the web has become slower. Did you know that the good old jQuery is still the most used JS lib? Funnily enough, 2.2% of the websites threw an error because JQuery was not loaded. The most exciting part of the story is the broad discussion on the results CatchJS got.
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Understanding Burnout Culture and the Busy Phenomenon
What happens when too much stress starts to build up at work and those in charge don’t know how to manage it? Work has moved beyond being a means to an end to feed the family towards providing their life with meaning, which makes it harder to switch off. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially classifies burnout as an “occupational phenomenon,” resulting from “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”
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Uber’s Journey Toward Better Data Culture Explained
Scaling the data system of a giant like Uber has its challenges and issues. At the heart Uber’s massive transportation platform is Big Data and Data Science that powers everything the company does.
Read more about the problems, solutions, and results of the entire journey.
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What Is Monorepo? (and Should You Use It?)
This is an insightful story by Tomas Fernandez that focuses monorepos and multirepos and the importance of choosing the right one early on in the process. At first glance, the choice between monorepos and multirepos may not seem like a big deal, but it’s a decision that will deeply influence your company’s development workflow.
The story contains details about how companies like Airbnb, Uber, and Pinterest approached Monorepo.
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Spotify’s New Experimentation Coordination Strategy
Spotify runs hundreds of different experiments at any point of each day. As a result, they found this overwhelming enough to search for a new way of experimentation coordination. They find comfort in an idea called Bucket Reuse.
Bucket Reuse is a simple idea utilizing the power of hashing. Essentially the steps are as follows: decide on a number of buckets (B). At the end of the blog post, Spotify shares their new and complete experimentation coordination strategy, one that will hopefully benefit you as well. |
Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off
After two years, Stockton’s experiment involving sending donated payments of $500 to 125 individuals who had lower incomes than average finally got its results. 😲 Everyone who received money wasn’t forced to report back, to do any drug tests, or come back for interviews. Previews statements on welfare said this: Give people money, and they stop working. They become dependent on welfare. They never sort out the problems in their life. The best route out of poverty is a hand up, not a handout. Today, Stockton’s experiment proved it wrong by revealing the results which you can find here. ✅ |
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Vueconf - Official Vue.js Conference
Vueconf USA is an official conference that covers all things Vue.js! It’s a one-day event, hosted by Evan You - the creator of Vue.js. April 14th - Online
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