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