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This is some most practical ways for management of time. Relevant for anyone who is NOT a manager. Managers firefight, and there is no right way for them. Very relevant for Staff Engineers. youtube.com/watch?v=uhI78A…
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Effective time management for PhD students
These two are the most imp metrics. All the 101-alerts to my systems are based on these. System Resource exhaustion, Bad code deployment, Broken infra, Network failure or anything.. They can all be caught in the above two models.
1. Error rate: Check 4xx/5xx spikes to see if the system is breaking under load. 2. Latency (p95/p99): Identify if response times are degrading.
The best of the best Engineers that I have seen have a sense of urgency. Anything slow irritates them. And they would never work for a "process based" large companies. Pace builds momentum.
Agree to most of it. I read somewhere that "Once is never enough". That's especially true for difficult subjects. The churns produce the juice.
how to study and learn really difficult subjects: 1. don’t panic. hard just means dense. it’s not impossible, it’s just packed. unwrap it slowly. 2. get a map before diving in. watch an overview video, read the table of contents, or skim the wikipedia page. you need context…
DDIA should be a part of the curriculum in colleges.
Its like having a very powerful and intelligent study buddy.
Sebastien Bubeck just cleared the air and honestly, it makes GPT-5’s achievement even more astonishing. No, GPT-5 didn’t magically solve a new Erdős problem. What it did was arguably harder to appreciate: it rediscovered a long-forgotten mathematical link, buried in obscure…
Staff Archetypes. staffeng.com/guides/staff-a…
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Most career ladders define a single, uniform set of expectations for Staff engineers operating within the company. Everyone benefits from clear role expectations, but career ladders are a tool that...
When working with / building a storage systems, I so much prefer "append only" form of writes. Makes dealing with concurrency, crash recovery and sequential writes - so much easier.
".... technical skill, product thinking, project execution, and people skills. And the more senior you get, the more you’re expected to contribute to each." joshs.bearblog.dev/being-good-isn…
When to Emit What O11y Signal? akshayd.dev/2025/09/04/whe…
SLO's! 100% green is great, but if your SLA is 98%, use that 2% to test in prod. Break things intentionally (maybe) and test that things will really on that rainy day.
Be it music, code, technical writings or whatever.. are you "producing" ? Some of the best advices to come back to every few months. guzey.com/personal/what-…
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