Some interesting content that I read and heard during August 2021. Expect Postgres, Engineering Management and miscellaneous stuff.

Engineering Management

Many content from Félix López (@flopezluis), follow him!

• ¿Cómo cambias a una persona que no funciona?.
• El rol del Engineering manager: Gestionando el bajo rendimiento.
• El rol del Engineering manager: Ayudando a crecer sin quemar.
• Startup School: Restart “Motivación y responsabilidad”, Google for Startups.

… and others:

• Stripe’s remote engineering hub, one year in.
• Managing Remotely.
• Engineering Team Meeting: Format & Topic Ideas.
• re:Work.
• Building trust through effective communication.
• Building Bridges as a Technical Leader .
• The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication.
• Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering.
• Tech Lead Expectations for Engineering Projects (Gergely Orosz @Uber).
• The epistemology of software quality.

SQL/PostgreSQL/PostGIS/Aurora

• PostgreSQL indexing: Index scan vs. Bitmap scan vs. Sequential scan (basics).
• PostgreSQL: ANALYZE and optimizer statistics.
• Cleaning Up Your Postgres Database.
• Production PostGIS Vector Tiles: Caching.
• A Safer Price Type in Postgres.

Misc

• Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years.
• Thread about Coinbase migrating from native mobile to React Native.
• Great list of books related to geo and data by @ramiroaznar.
• Agile: Small Safe Steps by @eferro.
• How to stop using your GraphQL API as a REST API.
• Tools for better thinking.
• The Case for Location-Independent Salaries.