Week 51, 2020
Cloud
AWS launches new managed services: Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview) and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.
Monitoring & securing AWS with Microsoft
“Interesting approach, how to setup (advanced) monitoring of AWS with Azure Security Center (CSPM), Azure Defender (CWPP), Cloud App Security (CASB), and Azure Sentinel (SIEM).” (from Cloud Security Reading List)
Development
Can developer productivity be measured?
“Defining and measuring programmer productivity is one of the most difficult parts of an engineering manager or CTO’s job description. When everything you do is intangible, how should you measure it? Can it be measured at all?”
The CSS Mindset
“You need a certain mindset to write good CSS.”
How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You
“Value your reviewer’s time”. tl;dr; Start with these and read the article for more:
- Review your own code first
- Write a clear changelist description
- Automate the easy stuff
- Answer questions with the code itself
- Narrowly scope changes
- Separate functional and non-functional changes
- Break up large changelists
Software
Chrome is bad
tl;dr; “Google Chrome installs Keystone on your computer, which makes your whole computer slow even when Chrome isn’t running. Deleting Chrome and Keystone makes your computer way, way faster, all the time.” Alternative facts about the issue from Hacker News.
Learning
The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
(from HackerNewsletter)
How I read books: setting up a new system
“Knowledge is much more valuable when we can act on it, and change our behavior.”
tl;dr; Active learning / reading; Processing and reflecting; Repeating; Presenting; Taking action. (from HackerNewsletter)
Something different
The Donut King who went full circle – from rags to riches, twice
(from HackerNewsletter)
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