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Empathy: A Keystone Habit
Paul Tevis explores how empathy is what Charles Duhigg calls a "keystone habit", a behavior change that unlocks other cascading behavior changes.
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Dropping the Work-Life Balancing Act
Cameron Jacoby shares her experience of dropping the work-life balancing act and replacing it with a framework for figuring out what works for her, and more importantly, what doesn't.
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How To: Developers' Community-driven Career Growth
Georgiy Mogelashvili talks about the “Game of Roles” that Booking.com uses to grow their own developers into senior or leadership positions.
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Learning to Love Type Systems
Lauren Tan talks about type systems in TypeScript, Flow, and GraphQL that can improve confidence and help ship less bugs to production every day.
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Incrementally Refactoring Your Habits with Psychology
Tilde Ann Thurium shares the story of how they hacked their habits to go from "mouse addict" to "Atom whiz” and dives into researched-backed psychological tips on how to incrementally refactor habits.
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Fantastic Front-End Performance Tricks & Why We Do Them
Jenna Zeigen covers the state of the art in front-end performance optimizations digging into the way the internet and browsers work to explain why each of these practices is important.
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Building a Voice Assistant for Enterprise
Manju Vijayakumar talks about Einstein Assistant - an AI Voice assistant for enterprises that enables users to "Talk to Salesforce".
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Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?
Bryan Cantrill explores Rust, explains why it has captured the imagination of so many systems software engineers, and outlines where it might best fit in the deep stack of operating system software.
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Algorithms behind Modern Storage Systems
Alex Petrov talks about modern storage system approaches, discussing storage internals, evaluation techniques to choose a database best suitable for a certain data.
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Zero to Production in Five Months @ ThirdLove
Megan Cartwright discusses how ThirdLove built their first machine learning recommendation algorithm that predicts bra size and style.
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gVisor: Building and Battle Testing a Userspace OS in Go
Adin Scannell talks about gVisor - a container runtime that implements the Linux kernel API in userspace using Go.
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The Operating System in 2018
Justin Cormack discusses the current status of OSes, the languages used to write them and the growing presence of unikernels and microkernels.