/Management

The Impossibility Of Making An Elite Engineer

- Kent Beck tl;dr: “While all elite engineers face these contradictions, there are as many paths through them as there are engineers.” Kent discusses the pattern he’s seen elite engineers take on with the following: (1) Longevity and diversity of projects. (2) Success and failure. (3) Mentored and self-directed. (4) Urgency and slack. 

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The Impossibility Of Making An Elite Engineer

- Kent Beck tl;dr: “While all elite engineers face these contradictions, there are as many paths through them as there are engineers.” Kent discusses the pattern he’s seen elite engineers take on with the following: (1) Longevity and diversity of projects. (2) Success and failure. (3) Mentored and self-directed. (4) Urgency and slack. 

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Your Company Needs Junior Devs

- Doug Turnbull tl;dr: “Coaching junior employees becomes its own force multiplier for innovating at scale. It’s not about the added labor, it’s about a psychologically safe culture that values teaching and learning, and the innovation that this unlocks.”

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Implementation Challenges Of A Homegrown SCIM Solution

tl;dr: SCIM provisioning is a table stakes feature that nearly every enterprise customer requests. It enables secure and automated user lifecycle management, allowing users to be seamlessly onboarded and offboarded from applications. But building SCIM in-house is incredibly complex. There is a ton of fragmentation you have to deal with because each identity provider (Okta, Azure, etc.) has different ways of interpreting the SCIM protocol.

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Founders Create Managers

- Camille Fournier tl;dr: “The only solution to this is to think early and often about the systems of accountability you have to set up. This is much, much harder than micromanaging details, because every system of accountability you set up will eventually be gamed. So in addition to accountability, you need to foster a strong, ethical company culture that encourages transparency while allowing for some mistakes.”

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Basic Things

- Alex Kladov tl;dr: “After working on the initial stages of several largish projects, I accumulated a list of things that share the following three properties: (1) They are irrelevant while the project is small. (2) They are a productivity multiplier when the project is large. (3) They are much harder to introduce down the line.”

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Tone And Words: Use Accurate Language

- Wes Kao tl;dr: “You make decisions, allocate resources, and make plans — all based on words. This is why it’s important that your language accurately reflects a few things: intent, meaning, severity, level of certainty, stakes and power dynamics.” Wes describes how to use words that accurately reflect what you mean.

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Basic Things

- Alex Kladov tl;dr: “After working on the initial stages of several largish projects, I accumulated a list of things that share the following three properties: (1) They are irrelevant while the project is small. (2) They are a productivity multiplier when the project is large. (3) They are much harder to introduce down the line.”

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Securing Applications in the Age of AI: New Threats, New Strategies

- Reed McGinley-Stempel tl;dr: As artificial intelligence reshapes application security, new threats emerge alongside innovative protective strategies. Reed explores the challenges posed by AI-driven attacks and offers proactive measures to strengthen your security framework, empowering you to safeguard applications while maximizing AI's potential for resilience.

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Finding The Goldilocks Zone: Just The Right Amount Of Process

- AbdulFattah Popoola tl;dr: “All the struggling organizations I have worked in shared one common characteristic. They had process deficiencies: some did too little, while some did too much. The best-performing orgs? They did just right. This post offers suggestions and tips for leaders seeking to introduce change.”

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