This month is notably impacted by the lecture of An Elegant Puzzle - Systems of Engineering Management :). There’s many links on the topic, both direct references from the book and random-ish ones.

PostgreSQL

• Unfinished Business with Postgres.
• Fast Search Using PostgreSQL Trigram Text Indexes .
• Postmortem for Aurora Postgres Migration November 23 2022.
• In-depth: ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL.

Engineering Management

• The importance of a handbook-first approach to documentation.
• 1-1.
• 1-1 Suggested Agenda Format.
• PM & EM: Rules of Engagement.
• Company, team, self.
• The Principal Engineer’s Handbook.
• Removing uncertainty: the tip of the iceberg.
• How to be a great remote manager - the complete guide.
• Should we measure the performance of an engineering team?.
• Software engineering metrics that matter.
• What does Staff level mean at GitLab?.
• Performance Review Incentives.
• The epiphany: From Individual Contributor to Engineering Manager (and back).
• Navigating power dynamics as a manager.

More links from An Elegant Puzzle, my last reading:

• Process
  • Digg v4’s Architecture and Development Processes.
  • Goals and baselines.
  • Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
  • Identify your controls.
• Engineering Manager role
  • Adding Value as an Engineering Manager.
  • Close out, solve or delegate.
• Organizations
  • Opportunity & Membership.
  • Infrastructure between cost center and ego trip.
  • A case against top-down global optimization.
  • Where to stash your organizational risk?.
  • Selecting project leads.
  • Running an engineering reorg.
  • The “Peanut Butter Manifesto”.
  • Managing Hypergrowth.
  • Tools for operating a growing organization.
  • Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.
• Career
  • How Long Should You Stay At Your Job?.
  • Surviving as an Old in the Tech World.
  • Career levels, designation momentum, etc.
  • Designations, levels and calibrations.
  • Why Stack Ranking Is A Terrible Way To Motivate Employees.
  • Make your peers your first team.
  • Partnering with your manager.
  • Accelerate’s definition of developer productivity.
• Hiring
  • Your hiring funnel.
• Misc.
  • Skew, The Frontend Engineer’s Misery.
  • Refactoring Ruby programmatically.
  • Product management in infrastructure eng.
  • Building Technical Leverage.

TinyBird

• When you should use columnar databases and not Postgres, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Looking for an open source Google Analytics alternative? Set one up in 3 minutes.
• Text search at scale with ClickHouse.
• To the limits of SQL… and beyond.
• The Hard Parts of Building Data Systems With High Concurrency.

Misc

• Puede chatGPT trabajar en Tinybird?.
• “A la segunda siempre sale bien” series, by @javisantana.
  • El end-to-end developer.
  • La recetita.
  • 100% remoto.
  • La espada de Damocles.
• Cloud Pub/Sub announces General Availability of exactly-once delivery.
• Designing Uber.
• Apache Arrow: Read DataFrame With Zero Memory.
• How we merged our main repositories into a single monorepo.
• A handful of engineering principles at Factorial.
• How to Get That Staff Engineer Promotion.
• The future of literature is video games.
• My premises about software development.