The Tech Caffeine #31: This Week in Tech
🏆 How to Excel in Tech Without Learning to Code, 🛣 Frontend/Backend/FullStack/DevOps Roadmaps, 😞 Four mistakes I made as a new manager
👉 Have you been using Open Source projects in your enterprise? Here are some Vital Things To Check Before Using An Open-Source Project
🏆 How to Excel in Tech Without Learning to Code
Software is becoming a bigger and bigger part of our lives, but do we actually understand how it works?
We might be the tech savants in our families and know our way around a smartphone or laptop. But that’s just the surface; the reality is that most of us don’t actually understand how most of the technology we use works under the hood. If you had to explain to me how the internet works, could you do it?
Obviously, we don’t need to understand everything we use, in the same sense, that we don’t need to know why boiling potatoes in water with baking soda makes them taste better when roasted, or why ice reduces swelling. But technology is a lot more practical than that because a lot of people work at companies that sell software. And everybody works at companies that use the software.
🛣 Frontend/Backend/FullStack/DevOps Roadmaps
If you are looking to learn about Frontend Development, Backend Development, DevOps and don’t know where to start? Here are the recommended roadmaps.
These roadmaps are created by Kamran Ahmed and are quite popular. Kamran also runs his Youtube Channel where explains some of the topics in the roadmap in detail.
Here are the roadmaps -
Simillar to these roadmaps, I had written about A Journey To The Site Reliability Engineering - A Comprehensive Guide For Aspiring SREs. Don’t forget to check out!
😞 Four mistakes I made as a new manager
As a young software engineer, I assumed managers spent every minute of their days running meetings, tracking projects, and talking to people (in other words, sending a lot of emails). I was wrong.
Here I’m recapping some of my newbie mistakes and highlighting the common pitfalls in the hope that other new or soon-to-be managers find it useful.
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🧑🏻💻 Building for the 99% Developers
Should you move to serverless? Is GraphQL the answer to your API woes? Should you follow the latest DevOps playbook to increase your system reliability? In the world of tech tools, there’s a lot of buzz. But it doesn’t always reflect the daily reality of programmers.
As the founder of a developer tools startup, I’ve talked with hundreds, if not thousands, of software developers over the last few years in the course of routine user research. The common theme in these conversations, even bigger than the need for the product we were building, was an overarching need that is currently underserved: building for real developers, or what I like to call the 99% Developers.
📕 The Angular Mini-Book 2.0
The Angular Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with Angular. You'll learn how to develop a bare-bones application, test it, and deploy it. Then you'll move on to adding Bootstrap, Angular Material, continuous integration, and authentication.
Spring Boot is a popular framework for building REST APIs. You'll learn how to integrate Angular with Spring Boot and use security best practices like HTTPS and a content security policy. What about deploying your Angular app to the cloud? Yep, it covers that too!
📚 Q&A: What makes a bestselling textbook?
The millionth sale of “Introduction to Algorithms” prompts Charles Leiserson and Tom Corman to look back at the creation and legacy of the foundational textbook, now in its fourth edition.
