This post is mostly for my self to accumulate blogs that I usually read: Martin Kleppmann – https://martin.kleppmann.com/ (also highly recommend his talks regarding transactions and kafka) + book http://dataintensive.net/ and free ebook https://www.oreilly.com/data/free/stream-processing.csp Jessie Frazelle – https://blog.jessfraz.com/ Yehuda Katz – https://yehudakatz.com/ Luke Kanies – https://lukekanies.com/ (To be continued)
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This elusive sense of reality
Just watched Netflix’s Fyre documentary – and it’s absolutely amazing. This is about large scale scam on Fyre music festival, where people were buying tickets for many thousand dollars to live in Bahamas beach villas, and instead were put in unfinished tents with no electricity or running water. Even worse, poor locals working for the… Continue reading This elusive sense of reality
SemVer in production – always keep separate production branch on its own minor
While I personally prefer CalVer, SemVer is still actively used for many projects and quite frequently I work on it. If SemVer is used for something that is deployed to production, one rule I’ve made is to always keep each distinct production on its own minor version. If we have only one production environment or… Continue reading SemVer in production – always keep separate production branch on its own minor
Let’s Deploy to Production – hilarious video :)
Collection of Fun Business Laws
In this page I just want to write down bunch of fun business laws and observations with links so not to forget for myself mainly. Page is wip so I may add stuff later 😉 Note, those laws are in no particular order.
4 DataOps Challenges For 2019
This is just my view of what are the most critical issues in the world of Data, AI, Analytics, DevOps related to Data: First of all, DataOps is a new term related to data and analytics management lifecycle – Gartner considers DataOps as one of the key emerging technologies at the moment (although the term… Continue reading 4 DataOps Challenges For 2019
Cool DevOps articles and reads
This is “a post in progress”, so will be updated as I find more cool stuff. For now, only one article and I find it really great – https://blog.gruntwork.io/5-lessons-learned-from-writing-over-300-000-lines-of-infrastructure-code-36ba7fadeac1 + discussion on hacker news – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18537102
Books every IT manager must read, Part 2
Part 1 of the list can be found here. Note, that I’m trying to combine a list with IT / startup specific literature with something that is important from the common knowledge prospective. I believe this creates a good mix 🙂 So here is a continuation of the must-read books: Rand Fishkin. Lost and Founder: The… Continue reading Books every IT manager must read, Part 2
Productivity tools to research
After ~15 years dubbing again into productivity field. Listing the tools I am either using or researching or going to research near future – mostly a memo post for myself. Jira Trello Taskwarrior Inthe.AM Asana (they just raised $50M round at $1.5B valuation) Airtable Smartsheet Notion WorkOtter Wrike Swipes Todoist Hitask And methodologies: GTD Pomodoro… Continue reading Productivity tools to research
Budapest – best guide I’ve found
Highly recommend this guide to Budapest on reddit, I believe it’s really awesome especially the restaurant part, available here.