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How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer – As you become a senior plus engineer, the work stops being about doing the job that is assigned to you and to start to have more abstract responsibilities like finding problems to team solve. This skill requires experience and time, and most people will have their own framework to achieve it, but this post gives a clear view on how the author approaches it.
Do You Actually Want That Promotion? – Most people want the promotion to earn more money or have more status, but are all people willing to have more responsibility?
The Tower Keeps Rising – AI makes writing code cheaper, but not understanding it. Continuous usage of AI on system development can increase the complexity of the codebase faster than a team can handle it, leading to a fragile team and systems.
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How We Scaled Notifications with Fanout – Amazing history of how Patreon engineering managed to migrate a legacy notification system to a new faster one based on distributed fan out.
Against Claudefishing – Too many of what we see in the internet nowadays is generated by AI, this is not a problem, but pretending to be a human is. Substack is releasing a tool to help readers detect AI generated content.
What the CVE? – AI is transforming vulnerability research. This post tells the story of a researcher who automated vulnerability discovery with AI, exposing both the power of the approach and the challenges it creates for the CVE ecosystem.
WebAssembly (Wasm) Explained – Simple but useful post explaining what is WebAssembly (Wasm) and how websites (or web apps) can benefit of code written using it.
Building Gin: Simple Over Easy – Magnific history about one of the most popular Golang libraries. Important to think about how some decisions taken at the beginning of the project can shape the entire future of it.
The Laws of this World (Game Theory) – Five principles on why hard work alone sometimes isn’t enough. The author argues that positioning, visibility, solving the right problems, and measuring outcomes matter far more than simply putting in more effort.
Everyone Should Know SIMD – SIMD is a technology more well known between people working on systems that requires high efficiency and optimizations, but sometimes you can start using it on simple operations such as iterating over collections. This post is an amazing post that shows you a practical pattern to get started.
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