Issue #303

tl;dr: Leaving management for an IC role creates anxiety that you may not be able to return to management later on. Charity doesn't think so. If you’re a good manager, you'll improve as an IC and will "spend the rest of your career fending off management opportunities." Moving back to IC also creates anxiety around performing again as an engineer. "After 2 or 3 years of management, it’s pretty easy to go back to engineering. After five years, it gets progressively harder. But it can be done."

tl;dr: Principles of good feedback: (1) Praise in public, criticize in private. (2) Use “I” language instead of “you” language. (3) Be as specific as possible using SBI (situation-behavior-impact). (3) Be on the same side. (4) Stop if you’re too worked up. (5) Use a tight feedback loop i.e give at least 2 examples.

tl;dr: "Scalability is the idea that a system should be able to handle an increase in workload by employing more computing resources without significant changes to its design." The key axes of scalability are latency, throughput & capacity. Kislay discusses each, as well as how to quantify scalability, and more.

tl;dr: Questions include: (1) What happens if you build a circular prototype chain? (2) How to migrate from webpack 3 to webpack 5? (3) What’s the fastest way to convert a string to number? And more.