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3 September — What I worry about with AI

22 April — Requirements-as-Code for AI-Augmented Software Engineers
9 April — Solving the Prompt Management Problem
24 March — My Takeaways on Vibe Coding
4 March — What Special Forces Can Teach Us About High-Impact Engineering Teams

24 October — How Many Reports For Engineering Managers & Other Bedtime Stories
25 September — Performative Leadership: From Cargo Cults to OKRs
23 August — Solution-Oriented Coaching, or the Lost Art of Effective Conversations

29 November — Part 4: Beyond The Code and What I’ve Learned – Ethereum Payment
29 November — Part 3: Processing Payments – Ethereum Payment
19 June — Part 2: Product Data Models – Ethereum Payment
19 June — Part 1: Authentication and Crypto Wallet Management – Ethereum Payment
1 June — Building a Payment System for the Ethereum Blockchain

20 December — Learn Street Epistemology To Deal With Difficult People at Work
22 September — Six Patterns to Optimize Your Monolithic Codebase
9 September — How to Get Your Silent 1-on-1s Back on Track
1 September — The Most Important Step Of Every Great Conversation
17 August — Making Teams Effective At Remote Work
28 July — Burnout Is Real, and It’s No Picnic
15 July — The Skills Map of Senior Tech Career Progression
11 July — Unlock Your Soft Skills To Win The Career Game
29 June — Remote Work Stole Our Foundation
24 June — Becoming a Manager of Managers
15 June — Career Growth: What Paths After Senior Engineer
12 May — A Practical Way to Cultivate Self-Awareness in Yourself and Others
19 March — Resources to Catch Up on Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and NFTs
3 March — Coach or Mentor: What is the Difference and How To Choose?
9 February — Managing People: Avoid The Reputation Trap
26 January — A Complete Overview of Front-End Development in 2021
14 January — I Invested in Myself: I Hired a Copy Editor to Improve My Writing
5 January — How to Keep Your Tech Skills Sharp in a Leadership Role

8 December — Launching Sidenote 🚀

12 November — Service Ownership Checklist
6 May — Planned Reading: The Trick for Reading Nonfiction

11 December — Autonomous Peer Learning at Booking.com and How You Can Do it in Your Organization
11 August — Optimize your monitoring for decision-making
21 July — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 10: High-Performance Networking: KingServer vs. Nginx
3 January — How to get started with infrastructure and distributed systems

13 December — You don’t need to read faster, just pick the right books
3 August — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 9: Data Format and Memory Management in KingDB
25 May — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 8: Architecture of KingDB
14 May — Introducing KingDB v0.9.0

22 November — An afternoon in 1983 with Hector
18 October — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 7: Optimizing Data Structures for SSDs
8 June — It’s time to kill the file
7 May — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 6: Open-Addressing Hash Tables
12 February — Coding for SSDs – Part 6: A Summary – What every programmer should know about solid-state drives
12 February — Coding for SSDs – Part 5: Access Patterns and System Optimizations
12 February — Coding for SSDs – Part 4: Advanced Functionalities and Internal Parallelism
12 February — Coding for SSDs – Part 3: Pages, Blocks, and the Flash Translation Layer
12 February — Coding for SSDs – Part 2: Architecture of an SSD and Benchmarking
12 February — Coding for SSDs – Part 1: Introduction and Table of Contents

17 November — Robin Hood hashing: backward shift deletion
11 November — Robin Hood hashing
11 August — Hopscotch hashing
20 July — Cuckoo Hashing
13 May — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 5: Hash table implementations
27 April — Estimated reading time
3 April — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 4: API Design

30 December — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 3: Comparative Analysis of the Architectures of Kyoto Cabinet and LevelDB
3 December — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 2: Using existing key-value stores as models
17 November — Kir: find commands by describing them from the shell
7 November — Implementing a Key-Value Store – Part 1: What are key-value stores, and why implement one?
7 November — Implementing a Key-Value Store
26 October — Europe is not ready for drop-shipping
3 October — Tech startups and filmmaking
24 May — Cache debugging in Python
26 April — Immersive design and the power of visualization
13 April — How I successfully tested and rejected two niche markets using online surveys
2 March — I am tired of logging into websites
18 January — How to implement an algorithm from a scientific paper

26 December — Hair Analysis and Detection in Facial Picture
2 November — Facial transformation framework on the iPhone
11 September — Kitn, lightweight contact manager
3 September — Ultimate printf debugging
31 July — Be the competition
13 June — Market Segmentation and Decision Making
29 March — Is Google the Disney of the software industry?
6 March — The 20 / 80 productivity rule
20 February — Tomatwo, the mean tweeting machine
18 January — Gamification: the next revolution?

26 October — Automatic repository and web server synchronization on commit
23 September — The Gold Rush of Software
1 September — Image segmentation using the Lambertain color model
12 August — Active Appearance Models in C++ (Paamela)
26 July — Four weeks with OpenCV
6 July — Knock-knock: Secure your SSH server using port knocking
15 April — Efficient counting with MapReduce
6 April — Simulated annealing applied to the traveling salesman problem
2 April — Introduction to MapReduce