Linkdump 2015 - 5
Softskills
Keep Your Identity Small - http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Six years at SoundCloud, Five Lessons Learned - On creating a healthy culture and building a sustainable company within it - https://medium.com/@SoundCloud/six-years-at-soundcloud-five-lessons-learned-4a7abc47431b
The Ultimate Guide to Customer Service Training - https://www.groovehq.com/support/customer-service-training
How to Grow, Manage and Work with Remote Teams - https://zapier.com/learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-working/
Pairing with Junior Developers - https://devmynd.com/blog/2015-1-pairing-with-junior-developers
'This Mistake Will End Your Career' — the Advice That Almost Doomed Me… | Sallie Krawcheck | LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-mistake-end-your-career-advice-almost-doomed-me-sallie-krawcheck
The Remote Manifesto - https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/
Great short guidelines for distributed teams from Gitlab
Ruby bits
- https://rubymonk.com/ - Free, interactive tutorials to help you discover Ruby idioms, in your browser!
- http://dev.mensfeld.pl/2015/04/ruby-global-method-cache-invalidation-impact-on-a-single-and-multithreaded-applications/
- http://www.madebymarket.com/blog/dev/ruby-web-benchmark-report.html
- Roda Web framework - http://confreaks.tv/videos/mwrc2015-better-routing-through-trees
- Why you should use MiniTest - https://ariejan.net/2015/04/07/testing-with-minitest/ - "RSpec tries to do too much magic"
Devops
- APT Cheat Sheet - http://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2015/03/30/apt-cheat-sheet/
- Yum Cheat Sheet - http://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2015/04/05/yum-cheat-sheet/
- Collection of books for responsible Ops Folks - https://github.com/stack72/ops-books
- Service Discovery and Puppet - https://speakerdeck.com/garethr/service-discovery-and-configuration-management
Startups / Growth
Introduction to Growth Hacking (books and resources) http://readplan.co/lists/Uv9rruES-introduction-to-growth-hacking