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The mixture of engineering quirks

• Myth of genius programmer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ
• Voicing your opinion as software engineers - https://www.sihui.io/voicing-your-opinions-as-an-engineer/
• Why domain knowledge and long-term visions are as important as technical skills?https://www.sihui.io/domain-knowledge-and-vision/
• Don’t call yourself a programmer - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/
• Comments in programming **http://antirez.com/news/124
• Fast easy realtime metrics using redis - https://blog.getspool.com/2011/11/29/fast-easy-realtime-metrics-using-redis-bitmaps/
• Damn cool algorithms - http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms
• HyperLogLog
  • https://odino.org/my-favorite-data-structure-hyperloglog/
  • http://antirez.com/news/75
  • View counting at Redis - https://redditblog.com/2017/05/24/view-counting-at-reddit/
• Traits of best/top engineers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21870889
• Tech debt - https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/tech-debt/
• Estimating Software projects - https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/yes-you-should-estimate/
• How to do code reviews - https://mtlynch.io/human-code-reviews-1/

Databases

Postgres

• Toast in Postgres - https://blog.gojekengineering.com/a-toast-from-postgresql-83b83d0d0683
• Full page writes - https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/on-the-impact-of-full-page-writes/
• Postgres at low level - https://erthalion.info/2019/12/06/postgresql-stay-curious/

Intro to Explain Analyze

• https://thoughtbot.com/blog/reading-an-explain-analyze-query-plan
• https://www.depesz.com/2013/04/16/explaining-the-unexplainable/
• https://medium.com/pgmustard/performant-postgresql-queries-for-beginners-explain-analyze-c31aea1e3545
• https://dataschool.com/sql-optimization/optimization-using-explain/
• http://postgresguide.com/performance/explain.html

Different Database

• Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEPXoXVf2k
• Deep Dive on Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PshvYmTv9M
• Visual Guide to NoSQL systems http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems

• Quorum in Aurora - https://liqul.github.io/blog/quorum_in_amazon_aurora/
• Aurora Serverless - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/aurora-serverless.how-it-works.html
• https://blog.shikisoft.com/why-choose-aurora-over-regular-rds/

Soft vs Hard delete in DB

• http://abstraction.blog/2015/06/28/soft-vs-hard-delete
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/378331/physical-vs-logical-soft-delete-of-database-record

Architecture

Monoliths vs Microservices

• Monoliths are future - https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future
• Distrubuted monoliths - https://medium.com/unbabel/your-distributed-monoliths-are-secretly-plotting-against-you-4c1b20324a31
• Distributed monoliths vs microservices - https://blog.newrelic.com/engineering/distributed-monolith-vs-microservices/

Event driven architecture & data pipelines

• ETL Is Dead, Long Live Streams: real-time streams w/ Apache Kafka https://youtu.be/I32hmY4diFY
• Event-driven architecture with RMQ https://blog.theodo.com/2019/08/event-driven-architectures-rabbitmq/
• Various stages of data pipeline https://www.infoq.com/presentations/data-engineering-pipelines-warehouses/
• https://www.confluent.io/blog/publishing-apache-kafka-new-york-times/
• The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler https://youtu.be/STKCRSUsyP0

Django

Django Admin Cookbook

• https://books.agiliq.com/projects/django-admin-cookbook/en/latest/

Intro to DRF

• https://books.agiliq.com/projects/django-api-polls-tutorial/en/latest/

Django Models and Encapsulation

• https://www.dabapps.com/blog/django-models-and-encapsulation/

Intro to RMQ and Celery

• https://medium.com/@ffreitasalves/executing-time-consuming-tasks-asynchronously-with-django-and-celery-8578eebab356
• https://www.abhishek-tiwari.com/amqp-rabbitmq-and-celery-a-visual-guide-for-dummies/
• https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/2015-05-18-part1-rabbitmq-for-beginners-what-is-rabbitmq.html
• https://www.vinta.com.br/blog/2017/celery-overview-archtecture-and-how-it-works/

Product

Product Roadmap and Vision

• https://medium.com/hackernoon/what-product-teams-can-learn-from-disneys-moana-5c5ee713b223
• 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i69U0lvi89c
• On product roadmaps:- https://twitter.com/simplybastow/status/1168531672335343616
• https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/intercom-on-product-rethinking-outcomes-over-outputs/
• https://firstround.com/review/how-to-craft-your-product-team-at-every-stage-from-pre-product-market-fit-to-hypergrowth/

10x vs 10%

• 10x Not 10% Product management by orders of magnitude by Ken Norton at Mind the Product 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h5lCPpccAA&feature=youtu.be
• http://www.defmacro.org/2013/09/26/products.html
• https://www.kennorton.com/essays/10x-not-10-percent.html

Design

• Design better forms - https://uxdesign.cc/design-better-forms-96fadca0f49c
• The illusion of time - https://medium.com/swlh/the-illusion-of-time-8f321fa2f191

Meta

• How to be successful - https://twitter.com/sama/status/1214274038933020672
• Extending NVME Volume **https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52508038/how-to-increase-aws-ebs-nvme-size
• os.env vs local.py Rest-client gem is hijacked http://hn.premii.com/#/comments/20745768
• Make things High Quality - https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/how-to-make-things-high-quality-f466f875227d
• GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR TEAM BY PREVENTING BURNOUT- https://tomtunguz.com/managing-energy/
• How to operate from Keith Rabbois - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQHLK1aIBs&feature=youtu.be
  • Barrels and Ammunition and how to create more Barrels
  • Editors vs Creators and identify your role
  • Metrics and sharing meeting notes
  • Look for Anomalies
  • Have detailed obsessions
• My Company Sold for $100 Million And I Got Zilch. How Can That Be? - https://marker.medium.com/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8

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