The Tech Caffeine #14: This Week In Tech
Questions on Engineering Culture, Essential Skills for Architects, Github Experimental Projects, GraphQL as Scale, and much more!
✳️ This Week’s Featured Articles ✳️
The Pragmatic Engineer Test: 12 Questions on Engineering Culture
Gergely Orosz has provided 12 questions to get a sense of what a tech company is like to work at, based on things most job postings do not mention.
On similar lines, I have recently published a questionnaire 30 Powerful Questions To Ask An Interviewer. You can use this link to download this questionnaire for FREE.
Essential Engineering Skills For Every Software Architect
Learn eight categories of engineering craft classifications that will help you grow as a software architect to develop depth in selected areas and awareness of others.
Engineering Teams Are Just Networks
In this article, Marianne Bellotti advises that to be a great hiring manager don’t be distracted by rockstar engineers, study up on network theory.
You may need a Medium Membership to read this article.
GitHub Next Investigates The Future of Software Development
I recently stumbled upon this link where GitHub keeps on publishing their experimental projects. You may want to explore some of their projects like
Automating Data Protection at Scale, Part 1
In this article, the Airbnb Engineering team talks about how they built their data protection platform.
Lessons learned from running GraphQL at scale
In this article, the Dream11 Engineering team describes their journey of adopting GraphQL at scale.
How Time Series Databases Work—and Where They Don’t
In this blog, the Honeycomb team does dive into the topic of time series databases (TSDBs) and why Honeycomb couldn’t be limited to a TSDB implementation.
✳️ Recommended Book ✳️
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
If you aspire to be a manager or tech lead this bestseller is a must-read. The book talks about various topics in-depth such as -
Understand what it takes to be a good mentor and a good tech lead
Learn how to manage individual members while remaining focused on the entire team
Understand how to manage yourself and avoid common pitfalls that challenge many leaders
Manage multiple teams and learn how to manage managers
Learn how to build and bootstrap a unifying culture in teams
Check out this book on Amazon India or Amazon US.
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