Conducting a Successful Onboarding Plan and Onboarding Process – I believe that onboarding is important for the entire employment period. It helps setting expectations, getting to the code and being meaningful faster and assure both sides they made the right choice (and if not know it in an early stage). One thing I miss in this plan is the social part which I think is also important – having lunch \ coffee \ etc with not just the mentor.
I look forward to the next part “Conducting a Successful Offboarding Plan and Offboarding Process”. It might sound like a joke, but it is not. Good offboarding process can help the organization learn and grow and leave the employee with a good taste so she might come back in the future or recommend her friends to join \ use the product.

https://blog.usejournal.com/conducting-a-successful-onboarding-plan-and-onboarding-process-6ec1b01ec2ae

The challenges of AWS Lambda in production – serverless is gaining popularity in the last years and specifically AWS lambda. While many times it sounds like a magic solution for scalability and isolation it also has its issues to know. In this post Lucas De Mitri from Sinch presents problems they run into and possible solutions. For a high level view on Lambda functions just read the conclusion part.

https://medium.com/wearesinch/the-challenges-of-aws-lambda-in-production-fc9f14b182be

My Arsenal Of AWS Security Tools – In a preview post I pointed out on ElectricEye a tool to continuously monitor your AWS services for configurations that can lead to degradation of confidentiality, integrity or availability. This github repo aggregates open source tools for AWS security: defensive, offensive, auditing, DFIR, etc. 

https://github.com/toniblyx/my-arsenal-of-aws-security-tools

3 Problems to Stop Looking For in Code Reviews – I find the post title inaccurate but I like the attitude. As a reviewer you should not be bothered by tiny issues that can be enforced by tooling. Few tools are mentioned in the post and I would also add to that githooks which I find very powerful.I also agree with the insight that code reviews usually happen too late in the development process and constantly looking for the balance between letting developers progress and move forward and on the other hand give feedback on the right time.

https://medium.com/swlh/3-problems-to-stop-looking-for-in-code-reviews-981bb169ba8b

The Power of Product Thinking – In a previous post I mentioned that understanding the cost structure and trade-offs between different architecture (cost wise but also performance and feature wise) is a way to become a more valuable team member. Product thinking is another skill that can make you a more valuable and influential team member. This post explains what product thinking is (and isn’t) and completes it by suggesting several practices on how to develop product thinking. Totally liked it and am going to adopt some of the suggested practices .

https://future.a16z.com/product-thinking/