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Ultimate Guide to Citus Con: An Event for Postgres, 2023 edition

The Citus Data

(on-demand talk, Citus open source user) 6 Citus engineering talks Citus & Patroni: The Key to Scalable and Fault-Tolerant PostgreSQL , by Alexander Kukushkin who is a principal engineer at Microsoft and lead engineer for Patroni.

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Developer Experience at Netlify

Netlify

I was 8 years into my career as a Software Engineer before I heard the term “Developer Advocacy.” Combining teaching and development sounded like a nice way to progress beyond the coding or engineering management work I was doing at the time. Companies not properly empowering these groups.

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A First Team Mindset

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Instead, your first team becomes those other engineering managers, directors, VPs, whatever it is, those peers, those all-important peer relationships that are so, so vital to cross-team, cross-silo and cross-departmental work. He was the software engineering manager. Show Notes.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

This leads to endless meetings where engineering management get involved to discuss what's to be built, how to break up dependencies in manageable chunks and delegate them to various teams. Unlike healthcare and aviation where practices don't change over the decades, software technology is changing every day.

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The Case for Minimalist Infrastructure

Stacks on Stacks

Every engineering manager should have a ratio in their head of work hours spent in their organization on software engineering vs other related tasks (ops, QA, product management, etc…). This should never happen. At this point, I was convinced that there had to be a better way.

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Managing to Solve An Elegant Puzzle with Will Larson

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Links: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference – Berlin, Germany. Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams. November 4-7, 2019. Transcript.

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UK COVID-19 dashboard built using Postgres and Citus for millions of users

The Citus Data

Coronavirus dashboard at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA, formerly Public Health England) is Pouria Hadjibagheri, the Deputy Head of Software Engineering for Data and Web Services. Hyperscale (Citus) is used to distribute 3 of the tables across an Azure Database for PostgreSQL server group.

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