/Management

Why Your Team Should Be Using Just-in-Time Access

- Adam Buggia tl;dr: Least privilege in the cloud is hard, but progress can be made by taking a risk-based approach. Consider an attacker who obtained one of your developer’s credentials; what access would they have? By adding a temporal dimension to developer access policies, the attack surface can be significantly reduced for many security-breach scenarios. That’s where just-in-time access comes in.

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Evaluating Managers: 5 Heuristics To Measure Managerial Impact

- AbdulFattah Popoola tl;dr: Measuring a manager’s impact is hard since outcomes take time. This post provides early evaluation metrics as well as tips for course correction. Each of the following heuristics are explained in detail: execution, people management, team development, strategic vision & organizational influence.

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Visual Workflow Automation. Now With Code.

tl;dr: Build powerful automations fast, with all the hackability you’d expect as a developer. Stop provisioning infrastructure and maintaining one-off scripts. Write and automate cron jobs, custom alerts, and ETL tasks 10x faster with Retool Workflows.

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Our Cloud Spend In 2022

- Fernando Álvarez tl;dr: "Getting this massive spend down to just $3.2 million has taken a ton of work. The ops team runs a vigilant cost-inspection program, with monthly reporting and tracking, and we’ve entered into long-term agreements on Reserved Instances and committed usage, as part of a Private Pricing Agreement. This is a highly-optimized budget.""This post will cover why I went through the effort of creating a Python SQL engine and how a simple query goes from a string to actually transforming data." Toby covers tokenizing, parsing, optimizing, planning and executing.

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What Is A Product Engineer (And Why They're Awesome)

- Ian Vanagas tl;dr: "In this post, we define the role of a product engineer, break down the characteristics of the role, go over their skills, and finally figure out why they matter. We base this information on industry research, and job posts from top startups hiring product engineers, which we quote throughout."

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Architecture Diagrams Should Be Code

- Brian McKenna tl;dr: "Architecture code can be versioned with the code which implements it. We can write algorithms to check our architecture. I’d like to see more tools available to describe architecture as part of code, allowing us to generate as many diagrams as we want, for accurate and easy communication."

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Developers Are Already Responsible For Code Quality. Don't Add Blackbox E2E Tests To Their Backlog Too.

- Kirk Nathanson tl;dr: Should developers manage end-to-end tests? No. In this post we explain why effective teams offload blackbox end-to-end tests to dedicated experts.

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Measuring An Engineering Organization

- Will Larson tl;dr: "There is no one solution to engineering measurement, rather there are many modes of engineering measurement, each of which is appropriate for a given scenario. Becoming an effective engineering executive is adding more approaches to your toolkit and remaining flexible about which to deploy for any given request." Will provides a template to work off of.

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Which Meetings Should You Kill?

- Camille Fournier tl;dr: "I fear that the culprit is a surprising new factor, one that started before the pandemic but has gotten even more out of hand in the world of remote work: 1:1s." Camille discusses how group discussion topics have turned into 1:1 topics in the remote work era.

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Build Internal Tools, Remarkably Fast

tl;dr: You don't have to be a frontend expert to build beautiful apps. Retool provides a powerful platform to build your UI, connect your data, and publish your app in record time. With 100+ powerful UI components, you can write custom code nearly anywhere to customize how your apps look and work.

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