✨ The Tech Caffeine #22: This Week In Tech
High Growth Handbook, Using Postmortems as Guiding Force for Rapid Development, The Projects & The People that Shaped Open Source in 2021
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HIGH GROWTH HANDBOOK
A lot has been written about the early stages of establishing a technology startup, from fundraising and searching for product/market fit to early team building and M&A exits. But what happens next? Very little tactical advice exists about scaling a company from 10 or 20 employees to thousands.
If you are looking to understand these things in detail then here you go 👉
Postmortems at Loon: a guiding force for rapid development
Founded by Google SRE alumni, it is no surprise that Loon's Production Engineering/SRE team instituted a culture of blameless postmortems that became a key feature of Loon's approach to incident response. Blameless postmortems originated as an aerospace practice in the mid-20th century, so it was particularly fitting that they came full circle to be used at a company that melded cutting-edge aerospace work with the development of a communications platform and the world's first stratospheric temporospatial software-defined network.
The Projects and People that Shaped Open Source in 2021
According to Red Hat’s 2021 State of Enterprise Open Source Report, 90% of IT leaders are using enterprise open source, and 79% expect their use of enterprise open source software for emerging technologies to increase over the next two years. With most businesses using some form of open source, there is still varying maturity along the spectrum from consuming to producing and embracing open source.
SaaS DR/BC: If You Think Cloud Data is Forever, Think Again
SaaS is quickly becoming the default tool for how we build and scale businesses. It’s cheaper and faster than ever before. However, this reliance on SaaS comes with one glaring risk that’s rarely discussed.
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021
After one year as a virtual-only event, re:invent was back last week to Las Vegas with fewer attendees for the 10th edition, and with multiple sessions and keynotes, including a first one for the new CEO Adam Selipsky. AWS announced new features and improvements, with a focus more on packaged solutions than new primitives.
Here is a review of the main announcements impacting compute, database, storage, networking, machine learning, and development.
3 Lines of Code Shouldn't Take All Day
The goal of this post is to help remind you to reflect on your current development process. Is there some piece of your pipeline taking longer than it needs to? Is there a way to create some debug tools that makes it easier to test a change? Would unit testing bring benefits, but you keep avoiding it because you think there’s a big upfront cost to it?
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