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Talks from John Cutler and Marty Cagan on One-Pagers and Product Failure; How new features add to the operating load of a team; Data visualisation tips from the Stack Overflow Blog; and Statistics by Jim, a great site that explains many stats concepts in an easy ot understand way.
ReadI'm Eating With Boris vs. I'm Eating Boris 🤔; The Russian Instrumental Case
If you don't want to put your foot (or someone elses) in your mouth. It's pretty important to get the instrumental case right.
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Uber's approach to data; Marty Cagan on product failure; slicing work; queue theory; mob programming; team cognitive load; and British Cycling on micro-feedback (the other type of marginal gains 💉).
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Bitcoin 101 from 3Blue1Brown; multi-arm bandit optimization; avoiding making an information smoothie; self service analytics; design systems; and the original AWS press release.
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UX research; a bot for daily stand up rosters; SOLID in pictures; search @ Etsty; code reviews; a short story about the history of SQL; icebergs; and talks... on talks.
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DDD stuff; Vim and Zsh tips; cell tower visualisations; how Venn diagrams can fail; tech debt; product management; and a fantastic interview with the founder of Netflix.
ReadFilm: Sentimental / The People Upstairs (2020)
A relationship stretching, awkwardly hilarious comedy from Catalan director Cesc Gay. 👍
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Hacker laws; performance reviews; bioacoustic signatures; design docs and architecture decision records; data mesh; Vim 🧡; lessons from managing the Gitlab data team; Kafka; Airtable; and an interview with the founder of eDreams.
ReadChoc Blueberry Cake
A decent choc blueberry cake recipe. Found elsewhere on the web, adapting it here to remove the advertising and add metric measurement units.
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Matplotlib; statistical data quality monitoring from Uber; feature stores; data science project management; Looker hub and spoke models; the testing pyramid; service mesh guide; Koalas; LinkedIn's new graph database; and how Gitlab uses DBT.
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PR review tips; CTE's; SOLID design; the role of the tech lead; essays from Paul Graham; freaky GPT-3; discovering Lisp and Clojure; data scientist profile Venn diagram; the new Path to Principal podcast.
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In-app event tracking tips; Scaling Pandas; Netflix big data infrastructure; Becoming a Bayesian; Data structures that are actually useful; Stages of team development; Problems with Pickle; A replacement for Ctrl+R; Visualising Terraform.
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Timezones in Python; GoLD stack; More ETL testing; Goodhart's Law; Interviews and CV's; Bullshit jobs; Natural language SQL queries; Buzzword alert... Domain-driven microservices.
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Unit testing pipelines; BI stack discussions; P-values; Rich text on the CLI with Python; Real-time pipelines; MLFlow goes to the Linux Foundation; Retouching old photos; Testing software architectures.
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Staff Data Engineering at Slack; 3rd Party vs In-house Delivery; Next-gen in responsive websites; Silos and politics in software development; The history of air conditioning.
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App event processing architecture; GitHub Actions for MLOps; Untranslatable Spanish words; Worrying management; AWS Lambdas shared filesystem.
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Good commit messages; Diagrams as code; AWS Glue; TDF in numbers; Talent Garden; Podcast on Airflow; ML platforms using K8s.
ReadA Quick Start Guide to Data Modelling in Looker
A two minute summary of Looker's core modelling components.
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About Friday Links; ML Platform at Uber; One on Ones; OKRs; Project-based learning; ZSTD compression; Q-Con Conference Talks.
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Improving computational notebooks; The hot hand fallacy; Slack norms; Pyramid building; Moats before gross margins; Monoliths to Microservices.
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