Uber has one of the strongest engineering teams in the industry. Aakriti Singla and Simon Wu put together this story on how they are building the next generation payments platform to support their growth.

They went through a journey of extensive architecture design, implementation and well-thought through rollouts and active monitoring.

P.S This might be one of the best stories on architecture I came across lately.

A few years ago, Liang Guo while at Airbnb started series on Scaling Service Development. Last week they released Part 4 on building Schema Based Testing Infrastructure for Service Development.

The first 3 stories from the series cover the process they went through introducing Services Oriented Architecture at Airbnb. If you are interested, they are available on the following links: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3rd.

Richard Owen who works as an Engineering Manger BBC, talks about how companies should use leadership and raise the bar on quality on the products they are developing.

Great insights + some really actionable tips.

Not only a fantastic interactive reading experience, but a really careful and effective case study on a company which may become the canonical example of radical remote.

GitLab is a true example on how a remote company should thrive.

I’ve been in the talent industry for quite some time now. Over the last 2 years, we’ve onboarded hundreds remote engineers from multiple cultures and different personalities.

As remote onboarding is completely different than on-site one, I put together a checklist you could use. It is organized by time intervals, so super easy to navigate… read more.

I’m quite surprised engineering leaders still count clicks and keystrokes in their teams.

This BBC article is a bit controversial, but it covers both sides of the story.

In my opinion, if companies need to take snapshots to make sure their teams are productive in 2020 - they are doing something wrong. An interesting discussion on the topic is going on on Reddit as well.

Comprehensive, accessible, essential - the State of AI report by Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth gives a snapshot on the state of AI. You can download it here.

As part of the CI/CD learning series, this week I’m covering a few best practices.

This is the last item from the CI/CD series. If you want to learn more about CI/CD, check the online versions of the previous issues here.