Life
Articles
- Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win? Source. This was a riveting read. I was hooked on to the premise of the article immediately. I fear I would not able to do justice to this by trying to abridge it or giving an opinion. It is one of those thought provoking reads which will make you take a hard, long look at yourself.
Business
Articles
- A textual presentation on the communication in distributed teams Source. Worth a read
- A playbook for negotiating salary. Source.
Engineering
Write Ups
- An article about how and why Nubank killed it’s end-to-end testing suite and implemented a contract and acceptance testing strategy Source. While our infrastructure and development patterns have adapted to the microservices architecture, testing hasn’t been given a lot of thought to. I see this as the next step in the evolution of microservices.
- An explanation of structural pattern matching in Python 3.10. Source.
Technology
News
- Blackbird.AI has closed $10 million series A funding to help brands combat misinformation. Source. It’s worth your while to check out what these guys do and how they do it. Their blog has some interesting statistics and case studies on misinformation propagation.
- China has banned cryptocurrencies. Source. Again.
Security
News
- This article talks what a security.txt file is and some benefits and disadvantages of it. Source. One of the main reasons for including the article was, the Wikipedia entry for security.txt was written by Amal Murali, a former colleague
- Apple will remove support for the older, more insecure, TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in future macOS and iOS release. Source. Finally
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