Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Technical :

  • Don’t turn that Swap off yet. In defense of swap - common misconceptions. - link here

  • Why histogram and how are they useful. link here

    • If you have used any of the monitoring or APM tools, you would have come across Histogram form of metric being emitter. This writeup give a brief on why Histogram.

  • S3 isn’t getting cheaper - link here

  • [Podcast- 35mins]: Moving from CEO back to IC - with Mitchell Hashimoto, cofounder of HashiCorp – link here

  • Inside Datadog’s $5M Outage - link here

  • Book recommendation - Being Geek by Michael Lopp. I have been geeking out on Michael quite a bit these days and he has solid books and advices across the internet.

Non-Technical :

  • “A Checklist For First-Time Engineering Managers” - link here

  • Any lofi lovers here? Best lofi with air traffic control radio mix. My new WFH companion for background audio – link here

  • This is such a pleasant read on WFH day and the pace of it on a rand community channel, almost therapeutic - link here

  • An extract from the book:

And like it or not, your boss is judging you by these three criteria:

COMMITMENT
ATTENTION TO DETAIL
IMMEDIATE FOLLOW UP

Mark H. McCormack

Cheers until next time !