Friday 22nd November’s issue is presented by QA Wolf |
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QA Wolf gets engineering teams to 80% automated end-to-end test coverage, and it helps them ship 5x faster by reducing QA cycles from hours to minutes. |
That’s because they provide unlimited, parallel test runs on their infrastructure that gets you pass/fail results in 3 minutes. Here’s how it works: |
They build and automate tests for every single user flow & API in your app. They spin up separate containers in cloud infra to run thousands of tests in parallel. Pass/fail results hit your GitHub repo, Slack, & CI pipeline in 3mins. They maintain and update all tests as your product changes, and they verify all bug reports – so you never see the flakes.
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tl;dr: “It can be somewhat circular, but one of the best ways to build executive presence is for other executives to obviously care about what you have to say. This time, we’re going to dive into the behaviors that earn respect from other executives – the traits that help make them allies, and that prevent them from resenting you or taking you for granted.” |
Leadership Management |
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— Wes Kao |
tl;dr: Wes share some ways you can share feedback with senior leaders, or anyone more powerful than you—while being respectful, helpful, and protecting yourself from their wrath. |
CareerAdvice |
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— Nishant Shukla |
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tl;dr: Golden Datasets have long been a reliable method for measuring AI prompt performance. But as AI innovation moves fast, companies need a more agile, flexible, and cost-effective solution to stay ahead of their competition. Enter random sampling of AI prompt performance—a cutting-edge approach that adapts to real-world data and drives scalable performance for QA Wolf customers. Stay ahead of the curve—watch the webinar now. |
Promoted by QA Wolf |
Data |
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— Paul Graham |
tl;dr: “AI has blown this world open. Almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can have AI do it for you, both in school and at work. The result will be a world divided into writes and write-nots.” Paul believes this will have larger consequences than we realize. |
CareerAdvice |
“Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” | | | | – Frank Ocean |
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tl;dr: Things not to do in PostgreSQL, broken down into the following sections: (1) Database Encoding. (2) Tool usage. (3) SQL constructs. (4) Date/Time storage. (5) Text storage. (6) Other data types. (7) Authentication. |
PostgreSQL |
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— Ian Vanagas |
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tl;dr: “Our solution is trust and feedback over process and letting product teams own the process from beginning to end. We can't tell you what technologies to use, or the perfect way to pick them, but this is how our company of ~60, remote and async people does it.” |
Promoted by Posthog |
Management BestPractices |
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— Birgitta Böckeler |
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tl;dr: “A very powerful new coding assistance feature made its way into GitHub Copilot at the end of October. This new “multi-file editing” capability expands the scope of AI assistance from small, localized suggestions to larger implementations across multiple files. Previously, developers could rely on Copilot for minor assistance, such as generating a few lines of code within a single method. Now, the tool can tackle larger tasks, simultaneously editing multiple files and implementing several steps of a larger plan. This represents a step change for coding assistance workflows.” |
AI Productivity |
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— Ben Nour |
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tl;dr: “A somewhat opinionated list of SQL tips and tricks that I've picked up over the years in my job as a data analyst. Please note that some of these tips might not be relevant for all RDBMs.” |
Tips SQL |
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tl;dr: “Thanks to our clever engineering, we can now predict your location in a subway tunnel using your phone’s vibration signature.” This post dives into how. |
ML DeepDive |
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Most Popular From Last Issue |
Lessons - Joe Lonsdale |
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Notable Links |
Data Engineering Handbook: Everything you want to learn about data engineering. |
Documind: Extract structured data from documents. |
Fast GraphRAG: Intelligently adapts to your use case, data, and queries. |
Friday Deploys: Apparel and accessories for work and leisure. |
Pglite-Fusion: Embed SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table. |
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How did you like this issue of Pointer? 1 = Didn't enjoy it all // 5 = Really enjoyed it | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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