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Open Source Cloud Guide, WebAssembly: Future of Cloud Native Distributed Computing, Product Management Primer for Engineers, Automating Cloud Governance at Scale
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MTTR is a Misleading Metric—Now What?
Software organizations tend to value measurement, iteration, and improvement based on data. These are great things for an organization to focus on; however, this has led to an industry practice of calculating and tracking Mean Time to Resolve or MTTR. While it’s understandable to want to have a clear metric for tracking incident resolution, MTTR is problematic for a couple of reasons.
Open Source Cloud Guide From IBM
This guide will provide comprehensive learning for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud developers. As well as an agnostic view of how various clouds are using open source in their offerings.
What to expect -
An introduction to the basic concepts related to cloud use cases.
Information about how certain clouds take advantage of open source solutions.
Additional learning resources so you can further your understanding.
WebAssembly: The Future of Cloud-Native Distributed Computing
WebAssembly is a small and portable virtual machine that runs in modern web browsers, servers, and on a vast array of diverse hardware. Fast and efficient, this open WC3 standard is a compilation target supported by a variety of programming languages including Rust, C / C++, Typescript, Go, and more.
Adobe recently released a web version of Photoshop using this technology.
You must not measure individual software engineer performance
Effective engineering is a collaborative and creative discipline, where the team is the performative unit rather than the individual, and the performance cannot be measured by the team’s actions but rather by the outcomes of the system that the team produces.
An IC’s guide to roadmap planning
How individual contributors can leverage their unique perspective to advance alignment and clarity of vision.
A primer on product management for engineers
Breaking down the basics and benefits for engineers looking to manage product development with precision and verve.
Automating cloud governance at scale
Skyscanner engineering squads deploy thousands of production changes every day that interact with hundreds of services hosted on AWS. In this blog post, they will introduce some recent significant improvements to CFRipper that have enabled us to detect issues more accurately, allow for increasing levels of customization, and facilitate dynamic stack exemptions for engineering squads at Skyscanner.
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