The Tech Caffeine #13: This Week In Tech
Responsible Tech Playbook, Learnings from 20 years in Software Engineering, Ways to create tech strategies and much more!
✳️ This Week’s Featured Articles ✳️
Responsible Tech Playbook
ThoughtWorks released a collection of tools & techniques curated by the experts which can help your team understand the intentional and intentional consequences of the products they are building.
With what’s happening this week with Facebook, it is a great guide to access yourself.
20 Things I’ve Learned in My 20 Years as a Software Engineer
This article is a must-read for every software professional. The advice given is perfect and to the point. What I liked the most is the way Justin Etheredge sets the context -
Without understanding the context, the advice is meaningless, or even worse, harmful. If those folks had followed their own advice early on, they themselves would likely have suffered from it. It is hard to escape this trap. We may be the culmination of our experiences, but we view them through the lens of the present.
Creating, defining, and refining an effective tech strategy
This is a great panel discussion where industry experts talk about what does it mean to define a tech strategy for an organization.
You may have to register to access the content.
GraphQL at PayPal: An Adoption Story
There are a lot of companies adopting GraphQL lately. But it is important to understand the need to get there. In this article, the PayPal engineering team talks about the reason they decided to adopt GraphQL and the journey.
If you have something similar on your mind then this article is a must-read.
Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
In this article, GitHub Engineering Team explains how the different techniques they used to scale their relational database and improve the reliability. I enjoyed reading some of the techniques they used.
If you are preparing for the system design interviews or actually solving such scaling issues then this is a great read.
✳️ Book ✳️
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
In Team Topologies IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions for IT through four fundamental team topologies and three interaction modes.
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