🌱 Recap on community top picks 🍾
Hey, it’s Denis. I’m one of the curators of groCTO and have been with you since issue #1. I would like to use this opportunity to thank you for your support and continued interest.
Picking and writing these byte sized nuggets of knowledge and insights has been a blast. It’s a privilege to inspire you with new ideas every week.
Tech Favorite ⭐
Our second issue started off our growth journey with a bang! We brought to your attention a meta-analysishaha summary of Meta’s serverless FaaS platform.
Leadership Favorite ⭐
Issue number #4 contains the most popular leadership related article that we’ve highlighted. Written by Matt Watson it highlights a solution to the death spiral of endless backlogs and never-ending wishlists.
Most Loved Podcast ⭐
For episode #17, we welcomed Eric Bowman, CTO @ King, ex-CTO at TomTom. In this CTO exclusive episode, Eric brings forth his challenges of a CTO and the importance of being curious, disciplined & customer-centric. Dive into this interesting discussion & learn from the best.
🗞 All Bytes in one Place
#19 Expert DORA Tips; Applying Modularization; Your Brain Loves Breaks; Share Intentions Early
#18 Product Vs Engineering; Neglecting Tech Debt?; Empathy is the new SUPERPOWER
#17 Building the Right Thing, AI Tooling & Minimizing Cognitive Load
#16 Why Top Developers Quit, Supporting Underperformers & Thriving in Recession
#15 Coaching Teams Through Change, Prioritising User Value, 12 Signs of Difficult Engineers
#14 Engineering Impact Of Generative AI, Give Outstanding Code Reviews
#10 Fostering Productive Dev Culture, Intro to SLA, SLO, and SLI
#9 Prioritising Dev's Feelings, AI's impact on Team Dynamics
#8 How to Use Engineering Metrics, Uber overcomes Flaky Tests with this strategy
#6 Being an Impactful CTO, The ultimate guide to developer well-being
#3 How to get 'Executive Presence', Hampton 2024 AI & Business Report
#1 Engineering efficiency, GPT-4's rivals, DynamoDB Architecture & more
📔 All Diaries in one Place
Stephan Schmidt: Business Needs & Technical Roadmap
Sebastien Heide-Meyer zu Erpen: Diagnosing dev demotivation
Gaurav Batra: Driving Dev Productivity
Chris Bee: A Data-First Approach
Sergio Visinoni: Stress-Free Task Delegation
Kovid Batra: 6 atomic habits of highly efficient CTOs
Nitish Goyal: <CrowdStrike> Navigating System Failures
Nitesh Chandel: What it takes for a growth-stage startup to grow?
Diary Special: Our Substack Been Hacked!
RJ from Microsoft: Life of an Engineering Manager
🐤Tweets of the Week
@naval- The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
@kunal- All successful people in all fields are usually much better at learning than others and don’t lose their ability to learn after some degree of success.
That’s it for Today!
Whether you’re innovating on new projects, staying ahead of tech trends, or taking a strategic pause to recharge, may your day be as impactful and inspiring as your leadership.
See you next week(end), Ciao 👋
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