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Adam DrakeRethink hiring: how automation helps tech startups get ahead Hiring is almost always difficult, especially when the hiring process isn’t designed in a way that supports the company’s objectives. In this article I’ll outline a few key points to imagining and redesigning the hiring process. We’ll discuss a focus on generating inbound applicant flow, minimizing steps in the hiring process by maximizing information gained at each step, and increasing use of automation throughout.
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read more Adam DrakeIntroduction Growing organizations go through many changes on the journey of scaling up. A common one is the creation of new teams, and consequently, new team leaders. As startups move from teams of people, to teams of teams, former peers become leaders and must learn to excel in their new role. How do you tackle the challenges of being viewed differently and commanding a new level of respect, while at the same time remaining humble and approachable to your team?
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read more Adam DrakeUpdate After some input from u/epiris on Reddit, I improved the code a bit further by changing the way bytestreams are scanned. Current fastest runtime is 0.308s for 10,512,769 rows, or about 34 Million rows per second. Since the file is 184 Megabytes, this is a processing speed of about 600 Megabytes per second, which is probably close to the read speed limit of my SSD.
It all started with a blog post, Faster Command Line Tools in D.
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read more Adam DrakeTl;dr: Don’t even consider microservices unless you have a system that’s too complex to manage as a monolith. The majority of software systems should be built as a single monolithic application. Do pay attention to good modularity within that monolith, but don’t try to separate it into separate services.
– Martin Fowler
If you can’t build a well-structured monolith, what makes you think microservices is the answer?
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