Anna Glukhova shares her perspective on what the Engineering Manager role looks like at Grammarly. She describes four areas of responsibility to make the role successful.

If you haven’t heard of the current situation at Google about one of their Ethical (much needed) AI researchers, Timni Gebru, being let go, this article from Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) offers a good collection of links with context. It delves into the paper that apparently was the straw that broke the camels back. I’ve included this in the leadership section it makes you think how you would handle the situation differently. The paper is super relevant too given increased use of AI and its implications for carbon use.

It feels like 2020 has been a year of programming language anniversaries and the latest I’ve come across is also probably one of the most widely used given its application on the WWW. Thomas Claburn (@ThomasClaburn) reflects on the history, its current state and looks to the future in this article.

This article from LinkedIn Engineers, Xiang Zhang and Jingyu Zhu, is the first case study of moving away from a Lambda (FAAS-style serverless). In this case, it seems like they didn’t have enough cohesion in their original design, leading to duplication and bugs.

Colin Breck (@breckcs) expands on his talk from the Reactive Summit in this long-form article looking at the current state and what it means for the future. There’s a very succinct primer on what Colin describes IoT is for those unfamiliar with the term. I love the use of an anti-example, “the fact that your refrigerator can display the weather cannot be considered interoperability” 😅

A lot of technical leaders ask me, “What should I measure a developer’s productivity?” There is often too much a focus on the individual, with many not seeing software as a team sport. Isaac Lyman (@isaacdlyman) captures a lot of what I find myself repeating again and again in this great article 👏 .

A very interesting decision by Greece, given expanding remote working opportunities. Only time will tell if Greece’s bet to attract talent pays off in the long run. Reported by Kristie Pladson on Deutsche Welle.

Everyone around the world knows about the EU Cookie law. But I’ve not read of much about it being enforced. Katyanna Quach (@katyanna_q) reports France doing its part to protect user privacy by fining tech giants who violated parts of the French Data Protection Act. €100M to Google and €35M to Amazon for slipping cookies onto people’s computers even when people declined.