Tag: Miscellaneous
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Indexes bad practices
Posted on June 1, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In this article author will discuss secondary indexes common mistakes and bad practices. While the article is focused on MySQL and the InnoDB storage engine, most of this information applies to any DBMS. Published by Federico Razzoli.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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Exposing MyRocks internals via system variables: data writing
Posted on May 31, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Peter Sylvester wrote this blog post about new storage engine for MySQL that's rising in popularity. MyRocks, the log-structured merge-driven RocksDB engine in MySQL.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development miscellaneous
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Why Ruby On Rails is a good choice in 2019?
Posted on May 25, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Few thoughts by Błażej Kosmowski why he believes Ruby is doing great and still remains a good technology to choose in 2019.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous how-to business-and-emerging-tech
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Great engineer needs the liberal arts
Posted on May 23, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Thomas Betts wrote for infoq.com about how liberal arts eductaion can provide new insights and perspectives that shine a light on technical tasks for any software developer. E.g. empathy helps you know your audience and create great software that delights your customers.
Tags miscellaneous data-and-analytics leadership-and-career software-engineering
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How to create histogram in Rlang
Posted on May 22, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In this article the author will show you how to create histogram in R using ggplot2 package. Written by Data Sharkie. When we get a new dataset for our analysis or research, often we would like to learn about the frequency of occurrence distribution of the variable of interest.
Tags data-and-analytics miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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6 weeks: why it's the Goldilocks of product timeframes
Posted on May 14, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Process for a product team can be suffocating, or process can be liberating. And no process at all? Well that's fun for maybe a week or two before everything starts to fall apart. Interesting read by Brian Donohue from intercom.com.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous product-and-design
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The one mistake I made as a developer I wished I learned sooner
Posted on May 4, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
An article by Aphinya Dechalert about her journey from zero to dev lead and what she wished she could learn early in her career. The moral of her story -- protect your time.
Tags frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career miscellaneous how-to
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The narrative-driven organization
Posted on April 28, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article by Jordan Husney. It is meant to be a practical guide to using narrative and storyboards to design products & experiences, and organize teams around delivering value to manifest them.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous how-to product-and-design
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How to build a WebVR game with A-Frame
Posted on April 26, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Adi Polak article about building a game with WebVR. WebVR is an open specification that makes it possible to experience VR in your browser. The goal is to make it easier for everyone to get into VR experiences, no matter what device you have.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering
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How to pick your next tech focus
Posted on April 25, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
From pen of Ezequiel Bruni (web / UX designer, blogger, and aspiring photographer living in Mexico) we have this article about deciding what should be your next learning focus. In his opinion the technology you focus on or use next should always be matched to both the job and the people at hand.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering
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Mozilla's 2019 Internet health report
Posted on April 24, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
This annual open-source report examines how humanity and the internet intersect. It is a third annual examination of the internet, its impact on society and how it influences our everyday lives. By Mozilla.
Tags miscellaneous how-to leadership-and-career
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Inside look at modern web browser
Posted on April 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
In this article from Mariko Kosaka she walks you though insides of the Chrome browser from high-level architecture to the specifics of the rendering pipeline. If you ever wondered how the browser turns your code into a functional website, or you are unsure why a specific technique is suggested for performance improvements, then the article and next 3 ones in this series is for you.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous