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Simple actions for remote managers to keep motivation high

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge." Simon Sinek As a software engineer working in distributed teams for the past five years, I’ve seen how my manager’s actions (or inactions) affect my motivation. In my opinion, I succeeded in my role despite some of these … Continue reading Simple actions for remote managers to keep motivation high →

Book summary: SQL Antipatterns

I was recently going through my notes of SQL Antipatterns and was shocked to realize how actual this book still is. I'm going to share my summary of the book. I guarantee you'll recognize at least some antipatterns in your current database design. Logical Database Design Antipatterns Jaywalking Antipattern: Storing a delimiter-separated value string in … Continue reading Book summary: SQL Antipatterns →

Book summaries: Extreme ownership & The dichotomy of leadership

On any team, in any organization, all responsibility for success and failure rests with the leader. The leader must own everything in his or her world. There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.Extreme ownership In this post, … Continue reading Book summaries: Extreme ownership & The dichotomy of leadership →

Migrating to privacy-centric apps is simpler than you think

I don't have anything to hide, but I don't have anything to show you either.unknown In my free time, I like to keep an eye on the world of online privacy. The social dilemma describes my reasoning quite well. I've been migrating towards privacy-centric apps, and I'm happy with what I've found. I'm sharing the … Continue reading Migrating to privacy-centric apps is simpler than you think →

Looking back at three months of job searching

Whatever you call it: retrospective, post-mortem, post-partum, post-project review. Your work can be better by stopping at regular intervals and asking. "What well that we don't want to forget" What should be done differently?"Linda Rising, foreword to "Agile Retrospectives" by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen When I started looking for a job, I didn't realize … Continue reading Looking back at three months of job searching →

Interview refresher for software engineering

Are you looking for a new job? And do you think that your day-to-day "in the trenches" experience as a software engineer will be enough to get you through the interview process? I thought so too, but I was proven wrong. In my interviewing experience, technical interviews are more about algorithms and data structures than … Continue reading Interview refresher for software engineering →

TLDR – The DevOps Conference 2021

Last week I attended The DevOps conference 2021. I took away a couple of resources that everyone can use, and I wanted to share them with you hoping that they might contribute to your DevOps inspiration. AWS recently released an alternative to the Netflix simian army: https://aws.amazon.com/fis/Cheryl Hung, one of the leaders of the Cloud … Continue reading TLDR – The DevOps Conference 2021 →

CITCON 2020, a virtual unconference

https://twitter.com/adinnaplus/status/1266772475003768838 Have you heard about open-spaces before? Have you ever been to an unconference? If yes, find something else to read. Otherwise, keep on reading. I'm going to describe how I experienced a virtual unconference I recently attended. By the end, you will have some good reasons to join one. What is an unconference? I've … Continue reading CITCON 2020, a virtual unconference →