Friday 30th May’s issue is presented by Dagster |
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Dagster isn’t just an orchestrator - it’s a full development platform for modern data teams. |
Dagster equips your data team to deliver real business results: faster time-to-insight, reduced compute costs, and a modern platform that grows with your AI and analytics strategy. |
Break down data silos, ship faster, and gain full visibility across your platform. |
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— Claire Lew |
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tl;dr: Claire shares the five most challenging employee archetypes she’s encountered, and the specific strategies that can help you lead them successfully: (1) The Entitled Veteran. (2) The Passive Resister. (3) The Brilliant Aggressor. (4) The Perpetual Victim. (5) The Performance Rollercoaster. |
Leadership Management |
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— Abi Noda, Laura Tacho |
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tl;dr: “Laura shares a set of principles for effectively setting targets while avoiding common pitfalls. Whether you’re an engineering leader or part of a DevProd or Platform team, this guide should be helpful for identifying metrics to align around.” |
Leadership Management |
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— Nick Schrock |
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tl;dr: “We’ll discuss what we’re already seeing with medium code using our domain - data platforms - as an example, including how medium code practitioners work and what characterizes them. Then, we’ll discuss the future of medium code, which we believe will be accelerated - not eliminated - by the rise of AI-native software development.” |
Promoted by Dagster |
Leadership Management |
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— Wes Kao |
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tl;dr: Wes shares how to distinguish between good and bad struggle. The “hard thing” is not necessarily better for you simply because it’s hard. We have to stop blindly equating pain with growth, because sometimes pain does lead to growth, but other times, it’s a sign the environment you’re in is a bad fit. |
CareerAdvice |
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
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— Simon Willison |
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tl;dr: For the last few years I’ve been trying to center my work around creating what I consider to be the Perfect Commit. This is a single commit that contains all of the following: (1) The implementation: a single, focused change. (2) Tests that demonstrate the implementation works. (3) Updated documentation reflecting the change. (4) A link to an issue thread providing further context |
BestPractices |
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tl;dr: If you’re done doing auth on your own, don’t sacrifice your control. FusionAuth is downloadable, and can be developed and tested locally. A single-tenant architecture provides better scale and security than a purely multi-tenant SaaS model, even if you deploy via the cloud. Try it for free, and check out our transparent pricing. |
Promoted by FusionAuth |
Tool Security |
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— Brian Kihoon Lee |
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tl;dr: “Coding assistants promise to revolutionize software development, but why do some developers sing praises while others find them useless? The answer lies between the keyboard and the chair, but it’s more than just simple user error. Your level of expertise silently shapes the way you interact with the AI, allowing two people to have completely different experiences despite interacting with the same AI on the same subject. In this essay I’ll discuss how this is possible and what you can do about it.” |
BestPractices AI |
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— Per Jacobsson |
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tl;dr: “We will cover state-of-the-art approaches to context building and table retrieval, how to do effective evaluation of text-to-SQL quality with LLM-as-a-judge techniques, the best approaches to LLM prompting and post-processing, and how we approach techniques that allows the system to offer virtually certified correct answers.” |
SQL AI |
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— Werner Vogels |
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tl;dr: “In this post, Niko and Marc - the two senior principal engineers who built DSQL - provide deep technical insights on Rust and how we’ve used it to build DSQL. It’s an interesting story on the pursuit of engineering efficiency and why it’s so important to question past decisions – even if they’ve worked very well in the past.” |
Rust Database |
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Null Pointer |
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Most Popular From Last Issue |
What Real Feedback Sounds Like - Claire Lew |
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Notable Links |
FlowGram: Quickly create workflows. |
LiveStore: Nexgen state management framework. |
MindsDB: Build AI across large scale federated data. |
PgDog: Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL. |
TanStackDB: Client store for building super fast apps on sync. |
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How did you like this issue of Pointer? 1 = Didn't enjoy it all // 5 = Really enjoyed it | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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