Weekly Bullet #38 – Summary for the week

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Technical :

• Don’t turn that Swap off yet. In defense of swap – common misconceptions. – link here
• Why histogram and how are they useful. link here
  • If you have used any of the monitoring or APM tools, you would have come across Histogram form of metric being emitter. This writeup give a brief on why Histogram.
• S3 isn’t getting cheaper – link here
• [Podcast- 35mins]: Moving from CEO back to IC – with Mitchell Hashimoto, cofounder of HashiCorp — link here
• Inside Datadog’s $5M Outage – link here
• Book recommendation – Being Geek by Michael Lopp. I have been geeking out on Michael quite a bit these days and he has solid books and advices across the internet.

Non-Technical :

• “A Checklist For First-Time Engineering Managers” – link here
• Any lofi lovers here? Best lofi with air traffic control radio mix. My new WFH companion for background audio — link here
• This is such a pleasant read on WFH day and the pace of it on a rand community channel, almost therapeutic – link here
• An extract from the book:

And like it or not, your boss is judging you by these three criteria:

COMMITMENT
ATTENTION TO DETAIL
IMMEDIATE FOLLOW UP

Mark H. McCormack

Cheers until next time !