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Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book

The Pragmatic Engineer

Manu recently published his book Twitoons: one employee’s cartoon chronicle of Twitter’s accelerated descent. I read the book: it’s funny! Today’s newsletter closes with a full chapter from this book, visualizing when Elon Musk demanded all Twitter software engineers print out their code on paper (!!)

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The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now

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Lots of time has passed, yet the book is still relevant. ” This setup made sense when access to computers was more limited because machine time was expensive, but, today, it would be wasteful to not have even an entry-level engineer writing production code. If you’re been forwarded this email, you can subscribe here.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

In 1997, when Amazon was a one-floor, sub-100 person startup trying to sell books online, I experienced what every engineer dreads. Third-party events like “ Oprah’s book club ” could send traffic and orders spiking 1000s of percent. Backend code I wrote and pushed to prod took down Amazon.com for several hours.

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Free Data Science Interview Book to Land Your Dream Job

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Look no further than this free and easily accessible web-based book to help you brush up on your skills and feel confident for your upcoming interview. Are you preparing for your dream data science job but feeling overwhelmed by the vast amount of online resources?

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

The Pragmatic Engineer

Wordpress.org – which has a complex, intertwined setup with Automattic, and was also cofounded by Matt Mullenweg –  bans  WP Engine from accessing its plugin repository and updates infrastructure.   Forks gaining momentum that has the code of Wordpress, but uses a different name could also be in the books.

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Paying down tech debt: further learnings

The Pragmatic Engineer

Later this year, he’s publishing a book on tech debt. These scripts mixed database access, HTML generation, and logic in unexpected ways. As mentioned, Lou is working on a book dedicated to this topic; sign up to get emails from him with more thoughts about managing tech debt , and to be notified when the book is ready.