Issue #29: 10 Reads, A Handcrafted Weekly Newsletter For Software Developers

The time to read this newsletter is 180 minutes.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit – Aristotle

1. Your boss is 90% of the ‘Employee Experience’. Nothing else comes close. – 10 mins read.
2. How NOT to hire a software engineer – 10 mins read.
3. How We Used WebAssembly To Speed Up Our Web App By 20X – 20 mins read.
4. Why We Moved from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine – 15 mins read.
5. We deployed Envoy Proxy to make Monzo faster – 20 mins read.
6. Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed: 30 mins read.
7. Scaling Elasticsearch Part 1: How to Speed Up Indexing: 15 mins read.
8. Five Super Helpful Rust Things That Nobody Told You About: 10 mins read.
9. Linkerd v2: How Lessons from Production Adoption Resulted in a Rewrite of the Service Mesh: 30 mins read.
10. 5 Things to Stop Doing When You’re Struggling and Feeling Drained: 20 mins read.