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December 6 · Issue #69 · View online
Level Up delivers a curated newsletter for leaders in tech. A project by http://patkua.com. Ideal for busy people such as Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, VPs of Engineering, CTOs and more.
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Grounded in gratefulness Last year I finished the online Yale course, “ The Science of Well-Being”. One of the habits that stuck for me was keeping a gratitude journal. This activity has helped me navigate through some of this year’s challenges. And there have been many 😕! Gratitude and practicing gratitude can help you and your team thrive. There is always more you could do. There are always more issues to address. But you can also celebrate how you’ve progressed, or use gratitude to recognise what you already have. In this issue I’ve included news of a couple of significant leaders who passed away. It’s sad but also is inevitable. In times of sadness or grief, practicing gratitude might offer you support. Ask questions like:
- What is one thing you recently received recognition for?
- What have you learned that has made you grow?
- What has recently made you laugh or smile?
- What is it that you can do that others may struggle with?
I hope you enjoy this week’s content. If you find it useful, please forward to someone else and send me feedback. Stay safe and healthy 🙏
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The Small Voice in the Room
Reading time: 5mins 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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‘Father of the Indian IT industry’, Tata Consulting Services founder F. C. Kohli passes, aged 96
Reading time: 5mins 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.
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Celebrating Tony Hsieh
Reading time: 2mins 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.
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Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture
Reading time: 24mins 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.,
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Five Years of Lets Encrypt
Reading time: 3mins 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.
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Changing Lanes: How Lyft is Migrating 100+ Frontend Microservices to Next.js
Reading time: 7mins 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!
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The State of the Octoverse
3 PDF reports: 30-40 pages each
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!
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How Zoom pulled off the scaling event of a lifetime
Reading time: 7mins 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.
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Stopping the conversation car crash - a guide to help big groups use Slack
Reading time: 4mins 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)
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Addressing The Developer Experience Gap with Newcode or Gluecode
Reading time: 7mins 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?!)
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Big news as AWS now supports multi-cloud (at least with one service) 😲
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Confirmed: EKS Anywhere will support workloads on Azure and GCP.
This is it. As predicted: AWS hearts multi-cloud. https://t.co/LbJUQouFVM
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We are so lucky to have people like @ jezhumble (co-author of Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise and more!) who share their knowledge so generously 👏
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I teach a class on software product management at UC Berkeley's @. For 2020 I recorded all my lectures, and you can find everything available for free (licensed CC-BY-SA) here: https://t.co/7bHktJz1Y5
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