🥁Important milestone: +100 subscribers!🚀
Thank you all!
Dear readers, I’m very happy to share with you a very important milestone for this humble newsletter. I have reached more than 100 subscribers! 🥳
I just want to say thank you! Thanks to all of you who at some point thought that the experiences I share might be useful for you. That’s exactly my motivation: Share my experiences that might be valuable for others and, together, grow.
This gives me a huge boost to continue doing what I’m doing, listening to your feedback to improve, and delivering value to you based on my own and real experiences.
Also, keep in mind that, if you found some of my issues useful, there are many chances that your colleagues might find them useful too, so, please share!👇🏼
Again, thank you so much! 🙏🏼
Now, in case you are interested, let me share with you the current numbers:
135162 subscribers (at the time of publishing this)42% open rate (very proud of this one 💪🏼)
Then, in terms of distribution, the percentage of users appears like this:
And concretely in the US.
This is not the usual issue, but just a self-promotion about how well this project is moving on. Also, because I want to keep this newsletter focused on sharing experiences, learnings, and growth from the tech industry, I’ve just written a short post in my blog in which I explained my lessons learned about this quick increment of subscribers in a short period.
To end this today, let me give you the list of the top 5 issues more liked by you (my readers):
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How to melt The Bus Factor on your teams
The Bus Factor represents the risk of having all the knowledge, that is critical for your business (either a company or a dev team), in one single person or a small set of people. Let me give you an example of Bus Factor. It happened to me once, that I had to take over a set of services that were managed by one single person. This p…
The importance of concrete observability
“You never know you need it until you really need it”. This is something that maybe you noticed at some point when you were operating software. This month I’ve been On Call duties during a weekend to assist in a migration of an AWS cloud region. Basically, I had to watch if something was wrong when my services were deployed in a brand new EKS cluster on …
Hiring for an Hypergrowth company
I've been hiring professionals for the software engineering field in a hyper-growth tech company for the last 5 years, including the COVID-19 pandemic time, and, in this issue, I'll explain the challenges that a tech company will have to face starting the journey of hiring in hyper-growth mode.
The impossibility of a Dream Team
Woah! Once this team gets up to speed a bit, we will be unstoppable Have you ever had that feeling? I did. A couple of times, at least. That was my expectation. At some point, I was able to have a very well-balanced agile team. Some of the persons were more skilled in infrastructure, others in Java and databases, others in CI/CD and testing, not forgettin…
Best,
Marcos
Congratulations! - I am still looking at 100 far away - been stuck at 60plus for some time. But I hope consistency will pay of eventually :)