As I make my daily rounds on the internet I read way to many things. Some are new, some are old. I thought it might be worth sharing some of the most interesting ones people, so here’s some recently read 🔗 that I thought might be worth your time!

Career / manager things

• Being a staff+ engineer, and remaining an IC: Finding the steps on the individual contributor ladder
• Wider thoughts on what it means to be principal: My thoughts about the Principal role
• Don’t feed ‘thought leaders’ (aka people with a single axe to grind) Don’t Feed the Thought Leaders
• What it really means to work as a team, vs ‘resources’: There is no “us” in team
• Hail Hydra Jira
• Motivation is a difficult topic, and understanding your own personal identity is complex, and not a constant: Know Thyself
• This is almost exactly how MSFT did reviews/calibration/etc. It’s likely not a far approximation from how many places do it: Discussing rewards for people

Best minds, ads, retail, etc

• Online retail isn’t just Amazon et al. It’s weird, and I don’t know what to make of it. Retailtainment: a deep dive into the new shopping experiences (Article gets lost a few times, stick with it)
• Cloud Kitchens aka SEO for delivery apps aka please stop the planet (Related: When did wings get this big?) The Great Wings Rush

Random

• Apple using all the typical culprits for egress on their private VPN-ish iCloud+ product: Apple Using Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare For Their New iCloud Private Relay Feature - Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com
• Functional Programming as flavour of the month: An Imagined History of Object-Oriented Programming (aka fashionable abstraction of the moment. unclear what the next one is)
• Not a joke: Optimising JS interpretation when running JS on WASM: Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
• 2 million requests/sec on single service w/ 4 cores. Excessive, and not real world viable, but speaks to ‘put the effort in, you can fix some of your cost problems’: Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 vCPU Instance
• On-Prem is going to be a thing in the future, if only as part of cost management. Thought this was a nice insightful article on the finances of cloud-native: The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox - Andreessen Horowitz