The Balanced Engineer Newsletter

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In March I'm exploring all of my Distributed Systems notes! Today we're chatting about scalability, including common scalability patterns such as: - Statelessness - Partitioning - Replication - Load balancing - Caching What other patterns for creating scalable applications belong here?

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Learning to write well as a software engineer is a critical skill, and here's why: 1. Writing shows others what you're working on 2. Writing scales your influence 3. Writing promotes deeper thinking If you're waiting for a sign to start writing, this is it! Start that blog or newsletter! Write!

Found myself agreeing to all the points in this months theme of visibility by @balancedengineer.com. In the latest issue on writing, this line hits hard! "The important thing is finding your voice and sharing it." archives.balancedengineer.com/archive/visi...

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This feels silly to put ON social media, but this week I've been exploring how to do things on social media! archives.balancedengineer.com/archive/visi... Some highlights: - Be authentic - Be consistent - Put some effort into your digital identity Also featuring some of my fav Bluesky feeds!

Does the term "personal branding" make you want to cringe? Same. But when talking about Visibility I thought it would be important to define and discuss! What is a personal brand, and how can you make sure that yours is reflecting what you care about?

This month in The Balanced Engineer Newsletter I'm talking about Visibility. Or how you get your name and work seen. This week is all about internal visibility. How you can increase your visibility with: your team your manager your organization archives.balancedengineer.com/archive/visi...

What are your thoughts on this? Is this a good approach? Is it over the top? If you want to read more, I wrote about it in this week's Balanced Engineer Newsletter. You can check it out here: archives.balancedengineer.com/archive/avai... If you like it then please share and subscribe! 😁

Before working in software I worked in occupational health and safety (OHS). Investigating software incidents borrows a LOT of concepts from OHS. As they should! OHS has developed this process because it's saving human lives. I think there is more we can borrow to further reduce incidents... 🧵

Happy Monday! It's MLK Jr day, are you doing anything to celebrate? Today in The Balanced Engineer Newsletter we are chatting about dependencies and their impact on availability: archives.balancedengineer.com/archive/avai... Check it out if you're into #webdevelopment !

A quick read that is full of info! Looking forward to more graphics in the future

Another edition of The Balanced Engineer Newsletter, your resource for quick and informative notes for generalist software engineers! This week we talk about Availability and SLOs Read and subscribe here: archives.balancedengineer.com/archive/avai...

Are you a generalist software engineer interested in leveling up? 🚀🚀🚀 The Balanced Engineer Newsletter just launched, focused on bringing you quick and informative learning resources to help you become a balanced generalist software engineer. archives.balancedengineer.com/archive/avai...

Just a few hours of work with @astro.build today and I have a landing page for my upcoming side project. Easy peasy! balancedengineer.com