Issue #402

Friday 31st March's issue is presented by Coherence

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I Failed 3 Job Applications, Here's What I Learned

- Alex Ewerlöf

#CareerAdvice #InterviewAdvice

“Today after 23 years, I have a relatively high level leadership position but it wasn’t always like this. As an introvert in a world that’s optimized for extroverts I had a long and painful learning curve.” Alex provides us with tips he's learned and mistakes he's made applying for jobs at Datadog, Spotify and Shopify.

Don't Yell At The Weather

- Paulo André

#Leadership #Management

Yelling at the weather sums up the reality of senior leadership in many companies when trying to “fix” a complex system. Paulo gives us a recipe to approach such a situation. The crux is to understand that failure is “the price of admission to discover the path to success,” and create a culture of rapid experimentation to embrace that philosophy. Paulo discusses this in detail here.

The 9 Principles Of The Perfect Startup Engineering Stack

- Zach Zaro

#Leadership #Management #TechStack

Zach Zaro, CEO and cofounder of Coherence, outlines the 9 principles of the perfect startup engineering stack. “A well-chosen set of developer tools can be the key to moving quickly. The ideal stack should be easy to set up, affordable, and integrate services that your team already knows and trusts.”

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Directly Responsible Individuals

#Leadership #Management

GitLab assigns a "Directly Responsible Individual" (DRI) to every project who is ultimately accountable for its success or failure. This article discusses how DRIs operate and their characteristics: (1) Detail-orientated without losing a strong strategic perspective. (2) Calm under the pressure of implementation and deadlines. (3) Strong listener with great skill at asking questions. And more.

“If you don’t hear any complaints from users, they are not using the software – or your support email is broken.”

- Atli Björgvin Oddsson

Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had

- Dylan Paulus

#PostgreSQL

Dylan shows us how we can store and query graph data structures in Postgres, something he did at his previous job to dynamically generate work instructions on a manufacturing line. “Based on parameters given, and rules defined on each edge, we could generate the correct document by traversing a graph stored entirely in Postgres.”

You Want Modules, Not Microservices

- Ted Neward

#Microservices #Architecture

Ted dissecting the concept of a microservice to “get to the real root of what's going on” arguing there's a mis-match between its promise and what it actually delivers.

Rust Is A Scalable Language

- Alex Kladov

#Rust

Rust is vertically scalable as you “can write all kinds of software in it,” as well as horizontally scalable - you “can easily parallelize development of large software artifacts across many people and teams.” Alex elaborates on both.

ChatGPT Plugins: Build Your Own In Python!

- James Briggs

#Video #GPT #Python

OpenAI's ChatGPT launched plugins, which can be built by anyone. James demonstrates how to build a plugin using the chatgpt-retrieval-plugin template.

Notable GitHub Repos

Postgres <> ChatGPT: Enable the use of OpenAI GPT inside PostgreSQL.

Taxy AI: Perform repetitive actions on your behalf in the browser.

Cursor: An editor made for programming with AI.

Gerev: GPT-4 search engine for your organization.

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