Books I’ve read this quarter1: Extreme Programming Pocket Guide by Chromatic Notes to a Software Team Leader (1st Edition), by Roy Osherove Non-technical: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, by Jeremy Rifkin Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer, by Svetlana Aleksiévich Books started, not yet finished (WIP): Talking with Tech Leads: From Novices to Practitioners by Patrick Kua Books I want to finish.

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Lessons in Agile: Six Months at Pivotal I’ve read this article by Maryam Labib where she explains what she has learned in the last 6 months at Pivotal: how to pair program, how to TDD and some good practices to be a better developer. Tags: maryam-labib, pivotal, career, professional-career, tdd, pair-programming, team, lessons-learned, experience Hacking verbal communication systems I’ve watched this talk by Ryan Alexander on what kind of systems humans use to communicate and how to improve them.

I attended a workshop on AWS Kinesis, called AWS Kinesis Zombieland by Javi Moreno at capside. Notes AWS Kinesis Zombieland muy importante escoger bien la clave de particionado (id de shard) KPL librería de kinesis que te permite hacer batching, timeout, … la otra se llama KCL. KCL permite mantener estado cuando te pidan una app de big data, pregunta para qué lo quieren, lo mismo que con cualquier proyecto de software latitud = Y, longitud = x el canal se llama stream, la capacidad se llama shard el shard sólo permite 5 lecturas por segundo, 2MB/s usar el shard como buffer usar la clave de particionado como algoritmo de agregación cada vez que tienes una tabla en dynamodb, tienes que poner una alerta de throughput nota: lo que no puedes hacer es guardarlos todos y luego procesarlo.

Until the End of the Internet I’ve read this article by Jason Zimdars explaining the “end of the internet” policy at Basecamp: they will make everything possible to keep the services running for existing customer until the end or until the last customer uses it. Tags: policy, end-of-the-internet, jason-zimdars, basecamp, product How Agile Principles Can Fund Your Start-Up I’ve read this article by Jurgen Appelo explaining how the agile values can help you negotiate funding for your startup: instead of negotiating with each investor, agree on a formula and invest in many small rounds, instead of a big one.

Books I’ve read this quarter1: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres, again. Building Microservices, Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman, with the ‘@deAprendices’s reading club’. Blog posts under the tag building-microservices Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux. Blog posts under the tag reinventing-organizations Non-technical: L’acabadora, by Michela Murgia Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons Books started, not yet finished (WIP):