Some interesting content that I ingested during October 2021. Expect Engineering Management, PostgreSQL, Python, mapping…

Engineering Management

• The “Accidental Diminisher”: Subconsciously destructive leadership styles.
• El rol del Engineering manager: Gestionando el bajo rendimiento.
• Aterrizar en un equipo ya consolidado.
• How New Managers Fail Individual Contributors.
• An awkward person’s guide to 1:1s.

PostgreSQL

• Psycopg 3.0 released.
• Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion.

Python

• FastAPI Tutorial.
• Concurrency in Python with FastAPI.
• Comparing SQLAlchemy’s commit, flush, expire, refresh, and merge.

Mapping

• Getting to the bottom of web map performance.
• Helping Sustain Open Maps on the Web.

Misc

• (ongoing) 40 Things I Learned About Data — @javisantana.