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By Tosho Trajanov

CTO Insights - Issue #81

#81・ Mar 27, 2022

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CTO Insights - Issue #81

By Tosho Trajanov • Issue #81 • View online

Welcome to CTO Insights #81!

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 favourite - Agile Doesn’t Work Without Psychological Safety and Bottlenecks of Scaleups: Talent.

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Featured

Kodezi - Grammarly for programmers

Kodezi is a cool tool built by programmers, for programmers.

It helps you debug syntax, logical, and complex programming bugs, optimize your code for optimum efficiency and convert codebases from one language to another.

kodezi.com • Share

The Insights

Architecture

Architecture Patterns: Caching

Enjoy a few helpful insights on Caching. It answers questions on where to employ it, the different levels of caching, various caching strategies, and so on.

The story covers 4 basic caching strategies as well as few implementation ones. An entry level story, but gives a nice overview on the architecture.

kislayverma.com • Share

Performance

Organizing and Scaling an Effective Data Team

A nice outline on organising and scaling an effective data team.

The story provides quantitive analysts on how a data team should evolve considering factors like number of employees, the complexity of the data, etc.

A company should have an expressly-organized data team whose strategic purpose is advancing the company through data.

An interesting read for anyone who is planning on building a data team.

www.robdearborn.com • Share

99% to 99.9% SLO: High Performance Kubernetes Control Plane at Pinterest

Discover what it takes to revamp control plane performance and redefine its SLO from 99% to 99.9% from Pinterest.

The average control plane leadership switch time has been decreased from 64s to 10s, with an 85% improvement.

There is no doubt that Kubernetes based compute platform has achieved huge success at Pinterest.

We have been supporting big data processing, machine learning, distributed training, workflow engine, CI/CD, internal tools — backing up every engineer at Pinterest.

medium.com • Share

Leadership

Bottlenecks of Scaleups: Talent

This article is part of the series: Bottlenecks of Scaleups

When you are in the midst of scaling it can be difficult to notice that you are being constrained by talent, until you really feel it, and your business growth is affected. These are some of the signs you can look for.

This article focuses on thoroughly explaining this topic, especially when it comes to attracting new talent.

martinfowler.com • Share

The 3 Elements of Trust

Whether the people in your company trust you as a leader or not impacts how you’re viewed and valued.

As a result, here’s what a study of 80.000 leader reviews says about gaining everyone’s trust.

It all comes down to three elements - Relationships, Expertise and Consistency! The whole story is available here.

hbr.org • Share

Culture

Why a Company’s Purpose Matters

A great article explaining how to balance four different types of goals in order to truly find joy in work and life.

Success is not about one thing nor an infinite number of things; it is about “just enough.”

We found that reaching this state requires your active engagement in four very different kinds of goals: Happiness, Achievement, Significance, and Legacy.

Read how to create a culture of purpose.

www.stridenyc.com • Share

Agile Doesn’t Work Without Psychological Safety

If your team is struggling in its agile transformation, maybe you should try evaluating the team’s psychological safety.

Check if everyone’s respectful, if they tolerate candor, and so on.

Luckily, this post explains how to detect this and how to fix it.

hbr.org • Share

Product

Successful B2B Product Management

Personal thoughts and insights on being successful in B2B product management by Alison Burnett, Director of Product Management at Salesforce and Louise Bernstein, Director of Product at Hubspot.

This is a video not worth missing out on!

www.mindtheproduct.com • Share

Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent: Four Rules for Scaling

Coinbase’s former CTO explains four helpful rules he learned about scaling as he watched Coinbase grow rapidly.

He’s seen hundreds of new employees come on board, has overseen the safe exchange of $150 billion, and now shares his most insightful tips.

review.firstround.com • Share

Other

My Guiding Principles After 20 years of Programming

Who better to teach you about programming than someone who’s been doing it every single day for over 20 years?

Alex Ewerlof is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Volvo. Here are his top 20 guidelines to be an effective programmer.

alexewerlof.medium.com • Share

Migrations Done Well: Executing Migrations - The Pragmatic Engineer

Here’s everything you need to know about conducting end-to-end migrations.

You get to learn how to prepare for migrations, strategies as well as what to do after.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com • Share

Why Spotify Switched Their Data Orchestration Service

Learn about some major problems Spotify had before switching their data orchestration service.

Although, the most exciting part of this post is how they found a genius solution to each issue.

engineering.atspotify.com • Share

Mozilla’s Vision For the Evolution Of the Web

You might be curious about how Mozilla plans to make the web better and more secure. 🧐

This post contains the highlights of their full plan.

Inside it, you’ll find a link to the full version which is about a 40-minute read. Thank God it’s Sunday! 😆

webvision.mozilla.org • Share

New Data: What Developers Look For in Future Job Opportunities

Thanks to this data, you can learn how to attract the right talent and what to offer every time.

How can you be sure these methods will work? 🤔

Just have a look at the results of this survey from over 500 developers.

stackoverflow.blog • Share

Closing Notes

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