Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
firstround.com
Fidji Simo's practices for keeping product work tied to intent — weekly reflection blocks, quarterly calendar audits and staffing checks against stated priorities.
medium.com
Rundown of fifteen Python data-science libraries — NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, NLTK and others — grouped by purpose.
hackerthemes.com
Interactive catalogue of Bootstrap 4 classes grouped by component, each with a code snippet and a rendered preview.
github.com
A fill-in README skeleton with sections for installation, usage, development setup, release history and contributing.
arxiv.org
Proposes learning the optimisation algorithm itself with an LSTM, rather than hand-designing the update rule.
investopedia.com
CFA Level 1 exam-guide section on options, covering calls, puts, strike price and premium, with a worked sample question.
medium.com
Tool-by-tool rundown of how the VC firm XAnge runs deal flow and operations, on Pipedrive, Evernote, Trello, Slack and Zapier.
aws.amazon.com
Announces general availability of AWS Glue, a managed serverless ETL service that infers source schemas, generates transformation scripts and runs the jobs.
callingbullshit.org
Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West's course on spotting and refuting bullshit, with syllabus, videos and case studies centred on misleading data and statistics.
docs.microsoft.com
Microsoft's catalogue of technology-agnostic cloud design patterns — Ambassador, Circuit Breaker, CQRS, Saga, Sharding — each with its problem statement and trade-offs.
zdnet.fr
Dossier ZDNet rassemblant les articles consacrés au RGPD : mise en conformité, bilan après un an, sanctions et montée en puissance du DPO.
microservices.io
Pattern write-up: keep a read-only view database, synchronised by domain events, so a query can span data owned by several microservices.
github.com
Guide to launching a multi-node Kubernetes cluster on bare-metal servers running CoreOS, in a repository archived since 2021.
martinfowler.com
Bliki entry on CQRS, the idea of splitting the conceptual model into separate models for update and for display, and when that split is worth its cost.
microservices.io
Pattern write-up: persist a business entity as its sequence of state-changing events, so updating the database and publishing a message become a single atomic act.
lewagon.com
Site of Le Wagon, a tech bootcamp running immersive coding and AI courses for people changing career.
apref.org
Site de l'association qui réunit les réassureurs opérant en France, dont la mission est d'aider les assureurs à absorber une fréquence ou une gravité anormale de sinistres.
argusdelassurance.com
Morceaux choisis de l'ouvrage de Marie Laure Dreyfuss sur la directive Solvabilité 2 : objectifs, principes directeurs et rupture avec le régime prudentiel français actuel.
