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Friday 3rd May’s issue is presented by Kinde |
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Cognitive Load In Software Development — Artem Zakirullin
tl;dr: “There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It's not a fancy imaginary concept, it can't be misleading - cognitive load is there, and we can feel it.”
CareerAdvice |
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Finding Stuck Energy — Paulo André
tl;dr: Everyone has a switch. Your job is to find it. If you don’t, all the latent energy this person has will remain untapped. To find that switch, you have to temporarily forget the work and focus on the human. Build a relationship. It’s never wasted time. “What is something you found really interesting recently? Teach me all about it.” is a good question to see what lights them up — and, if you pay attention, you’ll likely hear in the answer important clues that might help you change something at work.
Leadership Management |
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An Open Letter To Auth Providers
tl;dr: The first job of any auth company is to protect its customers – before anything else. Somewhere along the way it feels like a lot of auth providers lost sight of the thing that matters: You, their customers.
Promoted by Kinde Management |
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Software Friction — Hillel Wayne
tl;dr: Friction is everywhere in software development: bugs, security alerts, dependency upgrade breaks something, etc.. Hillel believes the way to mitigate this is (1) Smaller scopes and shorter iterations. (2) Giving teams more autonomy. (3) Building in redundancy. (4) Better upfront planning. (5) Automation (6) Experience. (7) Gaming exercises. (8) Checklists and runbooks.
Management |
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“A program that has not been tested does not work.”
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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Common DB Schema Change Mistakes — Nikolay Samokhvalov
tl;dr: Nikolay covers 18 mistakes, categorized into three big categories of DB schema migration mistakes: "(1) Concurrency-related mistakes. (2) Mistakes related to the correctness of steps. (3) Miscellaneous – mistakes related to the implementation of some specific database feature or the configuration of a particular database."
Database Antipattern |
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An Engineer’s Guide To Talking To Users — Ian Vanagas
tl;dr: (1) How to prepare for a user interview. (2) How to find the right users to talk to. (3) What to ask during user interviews. (4) Mistakes to avoid. (5) What to do after an interview.
Promoted by PostHog Product |
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What Can LLMs Never Do? — Rohit Krishnan
tl;dr: “Over the past few weeks I have been obsessed by trying to figure out the failure modes of LLMs. This started off as an exploration of what I found. It is admittedly a little wonky but I think it is interesting. The failures of AI can teach us a lot more about what it can do than the successes.”
LLM |
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How An Empty S3 Bucket Can Make Your AWS Bill Explode — Maciej Poćwierz
tl;dr: “I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files there for testing. Two days later, I checked my AWS billing page, primarily to make sure that what I was doing was well within the free-tier limits. Apparently, it wasn’t. My bill was over $1,300, with the billing console showing nearly 100,000,000 S3 PUT requests executed within just one day!”
AWS |
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Speeding Up C++ Build Times — Isabel Ren, Kunal Desai
tl;dr: “When we learned that engineers were losing hours building our C++ codebase, we jumped into investigating the root cause. Here’s how we cut build times in half and shipped a solution for scale.”
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