Double Shot #2343
- Kim Scott on why most work communication fails and how to fix it - An interview about Radical Candor (and you should read the book if you haven't already).
- Embracing context propagation - A technique to keep in mind if you're embarking on more distributed computing.
- Goodbye AWS: Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes, Part 1 - If you don't know for sure that you need to colocate, you probably don't.
- Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS - Impressive & scary. "A major component of the system is 54 years old, written in COBOL, and provides retail-level business logic."
- Books that every engineering manager should read - A reasonable set of basics. One of these days I'll get my own list on the public internet.
- How we optimized Magic Pocket for cold storage - A technical tale from Dropbox.
- TypeScript is Exploding, JavaScript is the Fittest - Some analysis of RedMonk's programming language popularity ratings.
- Using Stylelint to Magically Improve Your CSS - A how-to guide.
- Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech - Worth reading, though it feels a bit straw-mannish; his examples don't sound "loosely held" to me.
- The Power of the Pause: Introducing Sabbaticals at Buffer - The next frontier in workplace benefits for developers?
- WebAssembly Micro Runtime - Yep, WASM outside of a browser.
- Why open source firmware is important for security - Because closed source firmware is a disaster already happening. Excellent roundup of what's going on by Jessie Frazelle.