May the 4th be with you!
Read about the most important trait for your career growth - proactivity, about socio-tecnical architecture and about how DNS works
Two articles in this digest focus on the recurring theme of proactivity. It was suggested many times that being proactive and taking proactivity to extremes is your best bet in fast-tracking your career. In short, this translates to finding the most impactful work yourself and blasting through it with rock-star execution.
I hope these will inspire you to go search for those most impactful opportunities and get around boilerplate processes to get them done quickly 🚀
How I Grew From Engineer to CTO (17 min)
shares his road from a junior software engineer without a CS degree to the CTO. Gregor shares that these three things can skyrocket your career much faster than a CS degree: a sense of ownership and responsibility, drive and motivation for improving, and being a team player and making others around you better. This theme came up in some articles we’ve been reading before, and I call this “hyper-proactivity”.
Audience: Software Engineers / Engineering Managers
Value: Learn about the path to CTO
ToT Rating: ⭐
How To Drive Exceptional Performance With Exceptions (8 min)
In this one,
talks about avoiding being bound by organizational constraints when those stifle great outcomes. By properly asking for an exception, you can deliver value faster and be more successful. When you are following a process that someone established long ago, think twice. There might be an opportunity there to “cut some fat” and ship value much faster.Audience: Engineering Leaders
Value: Learn how to skip process overhead properly
ToT Rating: ⭐
Introduction to Sociotechnical Architecture: Why & What is it (10 min)
Eduardo De Silva
In the last InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report, one term that popped up in the Early Adopters segment is “socio-technical architecture”.
The term “Socio-Technical System” was coined in WW2 era and is getting more and more traction lately. This article will give you an introduction to this term.
Audience: Software Engineers / Architects / Engineering Leaders
Value: Learn about socio-technical architecture
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐
How DNS Works (3 min)
In 3 minutes of your time, this article will describe the whole DNS system architecture 🌐. You will learn what are resolver, toot, TLD and an authoritative name servers.
Audience: Software Engineers
Value: Learn how DNS works
ToT Rating: ⭐
That was short and sweet ✅
See you soon!