Double Shot #2328
- Great developers are raised, not hired - Why mentoring pays off in a tight market.
- Design Sprints: Storyboarding Tips - Part of a series from Thoughtbot about the design process.
- Experiments with Holacracy: Why we stopped doing it, and what we learned along the way. - Still sounds like a boatload of unnecessary overhead to me, but hey, it might work for some people.
- Icons: avoid temptation and start with user needs - How the NHS went from 30+ icons to 11. Nice to see a design process that doesn't just add more bells + whistles.
- Best Practices for AWS Lambda Container Reuse - Digging into some warm start optimizations.
- Comparing Kubernetes Service Mesh Tools - Looking at Linkerd, Consul, Istio, and Linkerd2.
- How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a problem) - It really shouldn't be surprising that big companies use "standards" as another way to gain competitive advantage.
- Octotree - "GitHub code tree on steroids". There's also a paid Pro version.
- Want to be happier and more successful? Write about yourself every week. - Status reports don't just benefit your boss.
- Building Intersectionality Into Your Hiring Strategy - The challenges of ethically managing hiring are pretty difficult to deal with. Here are some ideas to help.
- AI is not coming for you - "No one has any idea what “artificial intelligence” even means."
- Micro-promotions and mentorship: the big impact of small actions in an engineering culture - Be good to people. It pays off.