Amazing CTO | More happiness and success
🚀 21.1

by Stephan Schmidt

Happy Sunday,

This week’s insights include

• Technical debt 📉 should be called Technical Shorts
• How Google SRE and Developers Collaborate
• 😋 Nobody optimizes happiness
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology

Good reading, nice Sunday evening ❤️ and until next week,

Stephan

Stories I’ve encountered last week

Technical Shorts, not Technical Debt

I’ve argued against the technical debt wording for years now. Never use it outside technology, it doesn’t work. This article brings something new to the table " But technical debt is a misnomer because these shortcuts aren’t like loans at all. They behave like physical short-sells1. That’s when you borrow stock and sell it for money, with a promise that you’ll buy it back and return it next month"

https://www.varunsrinivasan.com//2020/05/27/technical-shorts-not-technical-debt

How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code

I’m always interested in ways to optimize the interviewing process to find great people. This one picked my interest.

https://freakingrectangle.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/

How Google SRE and Developers Collaborate

How do you set up software developers and SREs? The article has a convincing model of setting this up (if you’re 20+ people I’d say).

https://itrevolution.com/how-google-sre-and-developers-collaborate/ :x!>

Nobody optimizes happiness

My CTO coach pitch is “Make you happy”. I also think not enough people optimize for happiness. We sold our company, moved to a smaller flat, bought a dog, moved to the sea and got a small garden. We should have optimized for happiness ten years ago. But the article goes much deeper.

https://dynomight.net/happiness/

The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology

What drives the success of companies? Is every successful company exploiting a deadly sin? Like Netflix is exploiting sloth? If you are a consumer company, what sin are you exploiting?

https://digitalnative.substack.com/p/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-consumer

Data Center Heatmap

Many insights into temperature in data center racks. Never thought about this, but was interesting. Also has nice graphs.

https://barry.blog/2022/07/28/data-center-heatmap/

Clojure needs a Rails, but not for the reason you think

A good read, and think twice before you use Clojure (but I did have the same experience in Go). Manage the tech zoo

https://blog.janetacarr.com/clojure-needs-a-rails/

Do data-driven companies actually win?

Very interesting read.

https://benn.substack.com/p/do-data-driven-companies-win