/Management

The Code Review Pyramid

- Gunnar Morling tl;dr: The intention behind the Code Review Pyramid is to help put focus on the parts which matter the most during a code review, and what can be automated. The peak of the pyramid are matters that require small effort to change later on i.e. code style and tests, and the bottom require significant effort i.e. documentation, implementation and API semantics.

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Building Analytics (And An Analytics Team) At Mux

- James Isbell tl;dr: Mux is building more than just better video; we’re building the teams, systems, and culture to power online video for developers everywhere. We’re excited to share how we built out an Analytics function at Mux, and what we’ve learned along the way.

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Bottleneck #01

- Tim Cochran Carl Nygard tl;dr: This first post in a series studies common technical debt bottlenecks by companies entering growth. The authors look at causes of tech debt bottlenecks, various types of debt, signs you are approaching this bottleneck, and strategies to get out of it, include setting a quality bar, damage limitation to the business, collaboration with product, and more.

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Four Rules for Scaling

- Varun Srinivasan tl;dr: Coinbase's Director of Eng: (1) Shape your org chart so your product reflects what you want to ship. (2) Push part of the strategic decision-making process down the org to gain speed and flexibility. (3) Think in 3D to visualize what's missing i.e, think about how the work gets done, not just who does it. (4) Put people over org structures and leverage emerging leaders.

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One Way Smart Developers Make Bad Strategic Decisions

- Adam Gordon Bell tl;dr: "Tim is a very senior technical lead, and he’s good at his job. The problem put to him is: how do we make sure this doesn’t happen again?" Adam describes the problem - from a technical and organizational perspective - as well as what leads Tim to the common solution that doesn't actually solve the problem.

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Introducing the Modern Guide to Secrets Management

- Niklas Begley tl;dr: If secrets sprawling uncontrollably across cloud secret managers and external platforms sounds familiar, then you need to redefine what managing secrets means at enterprise scale by taking a universal approach. Learn more in our Modern Guide to Secrets Management.

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How Google, Twitter, And Spotify Built A Culture Of Documentation

tl;dr: "Today we’ll look at how 3 high performance engineering companies handle their technical documentation" starting with Google and their g3docs system, which "made documentation radically simpler for engineers." It (1) presented one way to document things, removing decisions. (2) Hosted docs next to the code so engineers can stay in their IDE. (3) Automatically rendered docs into designed HTML pages on commits.

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Trunk and Branches Model for Scaling Infrastructure Organizations

- Will Larson tl;dr: Early on in your company’s lifetime, you’ll form your infrastructure organization: a small team of 4-8 engineers. Later on, you'll have 70 engineers across 8-10 teams. Those are both stable organizational configurations. The transition between the small to the large team can be difficult and unstable, and Will provides us with a playbook on how to execute it. 

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Delegation Is An Art, Not A Science

- Lara Hogan tl;dr: Lara provides a "delegation template" that prompts the manager to describe, in one sentence, the outcome they want to see, as well as 3 phrases to complete when delegating: (1) "I will support you by…" - aim for 2-5 actions on how to provide support. (2) "You should reach out to me when…" - how and when the report should connect with you. (3) "This will be a success when…" - make this measurable and time-boxed.

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How To Set Up SSH Keys

- Sakshyam Shah tl;dr: If you are someone who generates/manages SSH keys and keeps them secure for day-to-day tasks, this blog post is for you. Learn all about setting up SSH keys.

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