The Tech Caffeine #8
Visual Introduction to Statistics, Low Context DevOps, Funnel Analytics, CTO Vs Head of Engineering
✳️ This Week’s Featured Articles ✳️
Seeing Theory - A Visual Introduction to Probability & Statistics
Seeing Theory was created by Daniel Kunin while an undergraduate at Brown University. The goal of this website is to make statistics more accessible through interactive visualizations
Please don't count outages (or SEVs, or whatever)
Here is a nice & simple read by Rachel Kroll talking about the *right* set of metrics people need to count to understand the *actual* reliability of their application.
Low-Context DevOps
A high-context environment is one where a lot of background knowledge (context) is required for a given task. It is full of trips and traps that a new person can fall into. A low-context environment is the opposite: Little context is required to be productive; what context is needed is presented to you at the right place and time.
In this article, Thomas A. Limoncelli begins with an explanation of the sociology concepts, then focuses on five ways to lower context, or leverage low-context techniques.
Keeping these techniques in mind, you can create SRE environments that are less frustrating and more productive.
Building DataAware: The In-House Funnel Analytics Tool At Dream11
In this article, the Dream11 Engineering team talks about how they built a scalable Funnel Analytics tool to understand user behavior.
Traffic Director Explained
If your application is deployed in a microservices architecture then you are likely familiar with the networking challenges that come with it. Traffic Director helps you run microservices in a global service mesh.
Docker Desktop Subscription Agreement Update
Docker has updated their Docker Desktop Subscription Agreement and here are the highlights -
It remains free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open-source projects.
It requires a paid subscription (Pro, Team or Business), for as little as $5 per user per month, for professional use in larger businesses.
The effective date of these terms is August 31, 2021. There is a grace period until January 31, 2022 for those that will require a paid subscription to use Docker Desktop.
CTO vs Head of Engineering
What is the difference between CTO and Head of Engineering / VP of Technology at a 30–100 people company? Check out the difference in this article.
✳️ Noteworthy Course/Video ✳️
If you are interested in going deep into Databases, here is a recommended course
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