Thomas Steding, experienced CEO author of Built on Trust shares a story from his early experiences where listening to the “small voice in the room” could have saved not only so much time, but also potentially a company.

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If you’ve worked in technology for sometime you’ve probably worked alongside Tata Consulting or at least heard of them. It’s hard not to ignore the impact he had on IT, both in India and across the world with his vision for the company. Simon Sharwood (@ssharwood) offers you a nice overview of his history.

Apologies in sharing more sad news 😢, but I have a lot of respect for Tony Hsieh, Founder and CEO of Zappos who recently passed away. He shared in his book Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose , how it takes excellent leadership to build a company where profits, employee and customer happiness can be aligned. This link is a short note from the current CEO.

I have no issues admitting I do not have a deep expertise around architecting data platforms but I appreciate those who do like Zhamak Dehghani (@zhamakd) who are generous with their knowledge. In this article, Zhamak shares four principles to drive a logical architecture for a data mesh which is super relevant for data driven organisations.,

Five years ago, a non-profit organisation set up a public certificate authority, with the intent of enabling websites to become more secure by default through automated provisioning of TLS certificate. This article by Alex Blewitt (@alblue) takes a quick look at its history and some implications about some recent changes.

I keep hearing more and more companies moving to Next.js, so I found this Lyft case study by Andrew Hao (@andrewhao) a good reason to understand some of the reasoning. Although most companies aren’t operating at the same scale, you might see some common problems. You’ll note that they haven’t finished their migration so I look forward to a lessons learned follow up when they have!

Nicole Fosgren (@nicolefv) author of Accelerate offers technical leaders some wonderful research gems around open source communities, things that improve productivity (small changes!) , and trends in security based on data from GitHub. Download the reports from the main site with this link for some great reading. Also, happy belated birthday 🥳🎂 Nicole!

This article from Tom Krazit (@tomkrazit) is a great insight into how building significant systems at scale are not just about the technology or architecture but also rely on successful collaboration with people and partners. A broader focus on all parts is a key to the success of technical leaders.

Communication is hard. Particularly when expectations around tools and channels evolve. This article from Dan Abel (@twicezer0) provides some great tips on preventing miscommunication over Slack (which applies to many other forms of asynchronous communication)

This article by James Governor (@monkchips) attempts to describe two approaches (newcode and gluecode) to fill the integration challenge developers face with constantly changing toolsets. I highly recommend reading the additionally linked article to understand more about the issue if want to improve developer productivity (and who doesn’t?!)