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Measuring Engineering Productivity - Measuring engineering productivity is a topic that has been discussed as long as the field of engineering has existed. This post acknowledges…
I recently came across two blog posts that made me think, especially in light of a sobering statistic I've seen floating around: a recent MIT study reports that 95% of…
Over the past few months, I have been constantly reading conversations about how Generative AI will reshape software engineering. On LinkedIn, Twitter, or in closed professional…
Have you noticed how half the posts on LinkedIn these days feel like they were written by an LLM - too many words for too little substance ? Or how product roadmaps suddenly…
My daughter just finished first grade and is about to turn seven. One day, she noticed me playing a math puzzle on a news site and asked if she could join. I told her that when an…
AWS has released several notable announcements within the LLM ecosystem over the last few days. Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors (preview) - Amazon S3 Vectors is a durable,…
Agents app design pattern - this is a back-to-basics adaptation. How would we read this 14 years from now? Would the ideas he mentioned there be a standard?…
PgAI - LLMs have been part of everyday life already for a while. One aspect I think has not been explored well so far is using them as part of ETL. The implementations I have seen…
- Better Plotly Bar Chart·1 min
I'm reading " storytelling with data " by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. I plan to write my thoughts and insights from the book once I finish it. For now, I wanted to play with it a bit…
This quarter, I read 3 books that relate to France and the resistance during the 2nd world War - Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon. This thriller is based on Nancy Wake's story. It…
How we built Text-to-SQL at Pinterest - Text-to-SQL and vice versa became one of the canonical examples of LLM, and every product needs one. The post described a very interesting…
This year, I track my book reading for the first time. I don't know if I'll keep doing it after this year or if I'll last until the end of the year, but for now, I'm all in. This…
(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup - in my current role as a CTO of an early-stage startup, I make many…
Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies - a McKinsey report that highlights the gender health gap and points to the opportunity -…
SQL as API - I saw several efforts to expose RDBMS as API over the years. This post suggests another engel - exposing an API that accepts SQL. Consider this a brain teaser.…
- Cannot get geekier·1 min
I contributed my part and created a connections board - https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-NnTsSZ5VzgJeM1OVLDa
Engineering Team Lessons from Cycling - having a background in team sports (Rugby) and individual sports (running), I enjoy such posts that bring experience from one domain to…
Another one bites the dust - I just finished hearing " Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less " by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz. One of my chief…
I had a long day of walking around and waiting a lot, so it was a good chance to listen " Working Backwards " by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr. It was more insightful than I…
After it was mentioned in "Second Brain" and was waiting in my reading list for a long time, I finally listen to " Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation " by…
"a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”…
- Team Health Check·1 min
Today, I heard Dafna Rosenblum’s (see Dafna’s blog here ) talk on the EMIL (Engineering Manager IL) meetup about “Team Health Check”. It was the first time I heard about the…
12 Debugging tools I wish I knew earlier - it describes more debugging strategies than debugging tools (i.e. minimal reproduction is not a tool). One strategy I missed in this…
Designing Age-Inclusive Products: Guidelines And Best Practices - I have a 91-year-old grandmother who, in the last 10 years, cannot book a doctor's appointment herself as she…
Potential impacts of Large Language Models on Engineering Management - this post is an essential starter for a discussion, and I can think of other impacts. For example - how…