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  • December 29, 2022

    Scaling Bloated PostgreSQL DB

    Table Bloats Index Bloats How to Prevent Bloat How to Reduce Bloat No one wants to use pg_repack or pgcompacttable when there is no problem with bloat. Another tool not mentioned in the article is pg_squeeze focused on tackling similar bloat issues. DB Major Upgrades (not related to scaling but is also in article) DB

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    categories:

    Engineering

    tags:

    #one-signal, #postgresql
  • December 26, 2022

    Unpopular Opinion – Why I don’t Celebrate During “Holidays”

    What is holiday? You tell me.

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    categories:

    Life Hacks

    tags:

    #opinion
  • December 25, 2022

    Amazon’s Engineering Culture

    Good: Bad: Performance Improvement Process Culture Career Progression Oncalls Planning and Documentation: Advices (taken directly from the article): Ref:

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    categories:

    Career

    tags:

    #amazon, #explicit-learnings
  • December 24, 2022

    Facebook(Meta) Engineering Culture

    Topics: How Teams and projects operate Releasing Documentation Testing “I see this place, it’s crazy. It looks like a clown show and yet, things are working really well. They weren’t doing the things in my books. (…) In the back of my mind there is the mystery of this bumblebee. In theory, this process should

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    categories:

    Career

    tags:

    #explicit-learnings, #facebook, #meta
  • December 24, 2022

    Performance Calibrations At (Big) Tech Companies

    Context: Calibrations is a place to discuss promotions and bonuses. Engineering Managers goes into various meetings to fight for their team members. As promotions and bonuses is budget based, these meetings are often longer to complete to agree based on some consensus decision taking on ranking certain employees. Employees are placed into buckets. Buckets can

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    categories:

    Career

    tags:

    #explicit-learnings
  • December 23, 2022

    How To Not Answer Any Questions

    Originally Annotated by: Sung Yi @ Atlas. Ref: https://trialtheater.com/trial-skills/cross-examination/how-to-detect-non-answers-during-cross-examination/

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    categories:

    Life Hacks

    tags:

    #explicit-learnings
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