A permanent place to keep important reads on Tech topics
Startup
Free to Trial Conversion Rates
How Dollar Flight Club achieved a 76.5% trial-to-paid conversion rate
Side Hustles: The 4 Kinds of Businesses you can Start
Open Source and Proprietary
Programming
Problem breakdown and solving useful for your entire career
12 years, 12 lessons thoughtworks
Some examples:
- 3-tier applications over micro services
- relational database over NoSQL
- page reloads over single page applications
Workplace, People and Companies
Process and Management
DOWNTIME: The Wastes in a process
- Defects
- Overproduction
- Waiting
- Not utilizing talent
- Transportation
- Inventory excess
- Motion waste
- Excess processing
On Management and Hierachies: Do we need them?
Continuous Delivery
- An explanation on Blue Green deployments (Martin Fowler)
- The do’s and don’t (Best practices) for Blue Green deployments on AWS
Site Reliability
Google Site Reliability Engineering
Project Management
How one jira ticker made my employer $1 million dollars
Unix Related Stories
Design and UX
North Design and development standards handbook
Databases
Why Ionel thinks MySQL is a terrible choice with django
High Availability MySQL from github engineering (way over my head)
Javascript
33 concepts every javascript developer should know (I haven’t gone through the wealth on content here and I don’t think I ever will)
API’s
API testing is exploratory testing: Testing API’s is more exploratory in nature than just automating and regression testing. The data they provide (or don’t) is rish in nature and needs to be aligned with what people need to get or do with them.
Python
Django
Testing
Test Driven Development the thinking behind Red, Green and Refactor