November Software Links

Some of my favorite links from November. If you have any good links I missed pass them my way.

Software Development

• A follow up to last months part one, part two of human code reviews
• Security Alerts from Github
• 50K scholarships to Udacity via Google
• embracing metrics vs testing

☠️ "Dead Code" can rot a code base over time. Here are a few common types of dead code. Be diligent and thorough about removing them as the code evolves. Even dead code can still cause problems. pic.twitter.com/vPQ7njyhEv

— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) November 22, 2017

intentionally and proactively providing an extra-normal level of support and manual help to users in order to learn about the barriers people are hitting

service and support driven development

Data

Running PGBouncer turned a potential catastrophe into a non-event for us. https://t.co/IIbk3vPzit

— David Copeland (@davetron5000) November 28, 2017

• more about PgBouncer

• scaling connections in Postgres

• Querying across RDS and Redshift, checkout dblink. Enabling some powerful data warehouse jobs. Thanks Alex from @anjlabs
• A story of rolling out DB partitioning on a live DB and notes on how to do it.

Ruby

• Reduce open DB connections from Sidekiq in Rails
• Rails 5.2 beta lots of good stuff
  • huge improvements in Redis cache
  • active storage
  • faster boot time with bootsnap

Devops

• Things I wish I knew about terraform before jumping into it
• DuckRails: quickly mock API endpoints
• dependbot automate dependency updates thanks @dmitrytsepelev

Tech Management

• working more than 50 hours makes you less productive
• thoughts from a 20 year startup CTO veteran thanks @dramsay
• Review of Remote: Office Not Required by @moyheen who is part of our OGE team.
• Case study: How complexity creeps in

Random

• Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You
• Parental Leave in the US vs the World

Links by wsyperek