Friday Readings
This is part of Friday Readings series: commented readings I find worth sharing. If you want more, follow me on Pocket.
Technology
EBay shares the traps they encountered when entering node.js ecosystem. Worth reading, especially if you are unsure on how to approach testing.
I am currently heavily looking into various ways to make the whole infrastructure set up declaratively. Terraform is one of the promising pieces and Building your infrastructure with Terraform is a valuable guide.
There is a magpie developer in most of us and its worth repeating their pitfalls.
Let's say that original Paxos paper wasn't quite enjoyable reading for me, so Standford's Paxos lecture made the world more comprehensible for me.
Ever felt bad about bugs in your inital version? Well, check out bug list in a figher jet. That's what you get for writing software with direct real-time consequences.
Leadership and company building
Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss is an interesting point of view on how to segment approaches with leading people. Central point—how do you provide guidance (or feedback) to those around you.
Do fewer things, better has been beaten to death (especially if you followed Leo Baobuta in his beginnings), yet it's still worth repeating, at least for me.
World around us
On assimilation of different cultures; point of view affected by current immigration crisis, but good point nevertheless.
Health
When painfully recovering from not drinking caffeine for few days, I've stumbled upon caffeine sensitivity article, part of very good Caffeine Informer. I knew caffeine have various effect on various people, but I didn't knew we've untangled the genetic background and rough brackets of what is "safe dosage" for them.