2022.11.14 - The Foundation of Product

Title: 2022.11.14 - The Foundation of Product

Foundation of Product & PageRank & GitHub Blocks & Decentralized social media & The Future of DevOps Is No-Code & Where will AI go next

This Week’s Highlights

The Foundation of Product https://www.svpg.com/the-foundation-of-product/
In order for the product team to come up with effective solutions, there are three constituencies that you will need unencumbered access to, in order to have any real hope of success:

• Direct Access To Users and Customers
• Direct Access to Business Stakeholders
• Direct Access to Engineers

Related: The bubble has popped for unprofitable software companies , Jony Ive, after leaving Apple .

The Age of PageRank is Over https://blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank-over
This process produces self‑enforcing monopolies in almost every sphere of online life—search, news, entertainment, social media… All these monopolies have two things in common: they are a product of advertising‑based business models; they are unhealthy for our digital society and an antithesis to what the internet was supposed to be—fun, quirky, and exciting. Instead, they attempt to control almost every aspect of our online life and culture. And this is why we built Kagi. We felt a strong need to stop this madness and reverse the direction the web is heading in. The main reason Kagi exists is to offer a radically different view of the web, one close to its original intention and one in which the users and their needs are at the center of the universe. The future of search is user‑centric.

GitHub Blocks: Reimagine repositories https://blocks.githubnext.com/
Extend your codebase with custom, interactive blocks. Build rich documentation, enhance your workflows, and bring your repository to life.

Managing Complex Change https://addyosmani.com/blog/managing-complex-change/
The “Managing Complex Change model” is an effective framework that can be used in any organization to initiate change. The model was created by Dr. Mary Lippitt, a leadership and management consultant who specializes in helping organizations navigate through change. In this blog post, we briefly examine each step of the model and how it may apply to your organization’s unique situation.

Mastodon – Decentralized social media https://joinmastodon.org/
Social networking that’s not for sale. Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people. Related:

• Your organization should run its own Mastodon server
• Exploring Mastodon
• Internet Archive: We have added a Mastodon Server
• Goodbye Twitter, Hello Fediverse!
• The Age of Social Media Is Ending

In‑Depth Reading

When we talk about React hooks, what are we really referring to? https://www.yuque.com/mu2020/react/tqq9oz
The title sounds grand, but the focus is narrow—just a developer’s personal reflections and takeaways while learning and using hooks.

Inside the mind of a frontend developer: Hero section https://ishadeed.com/article/inside-frontend-developer-mind-hero-section/
In this article, I will take you through the journey of building a hero section by showing my thought process, why I chose one solution over another, the pros and cons, and any potential challenges that arise.

Why We Should Have Markdown‑Rendered Websites https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeid7lt7snuzcvcmfqs5a5hlc5fmk3xmflz4hx2qa7c674vm3rpsdvm/why-we-should-have-markdown-rendered-websites.html
Re‑imagining the browser as a “user‑hosted and abstracted computing platform” and moving toward a presentation‑independent data format for text. I think both can coexist, and I’m not trying to dismiss legitimate use cases of HTML, CSS, and JS. But with HTML5—and since I professionally joined the movement in 2015—the tools have gained such momentum that complexity has exploded: we really need a new publishing tool for everyone that doesn’t require intricate knowledge of the entire web‑computing stack. Related: Why is Markdown so popular? .

AWS IAM Roles, a Tale of Unnecessary Complexity https://infosec.rodeo/posts/thoughts-on-aws-iam/
This is a highly opinionated post. I think AWS is great and I use it daily, but its IAM implementation is unnecessarily complicated.

Virtualization Explained https://architecturenotes.co/virtualization-explained/
The development of cloud‑native applications has become significantly influenced by container technology. Building secure and reliable systems requires a thorough understanding of different virtualization layers and process security.

The Future of DevOps Is No‑Code https://www.infoq.com/articles/devops-future-no-code/
If you aren’t a DevOps organization already, chances are you soon will be. And you will need as many qualified DevOps team members as you can get your hands on. No‑code and low‑code DevOps tools are an easy way to grow your developer pool while freeing up existing engineers to focus on delivering quality products. Related: Cloud Intelligence/AIOps – Infusing AI into Cloud Computing Systems .

Tulip: Schematizing Meta’s Data Platform https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/09/developer-tools/tulip-schematizing-metas-data-platform/
Schematization of data plays an important role in a data platform at Meta’s scale. These systems are designed with the knowledge that every decision and trade‑off can impact reliability, performance, and efficiency of data processing, as well as engineers’ developer experience. Making huge bets—like changing serialization formats for the entire data infrastructure—is challenging in the short term but offers greater long‑term benefits that help the platform evolve over time.

Creating Media with Machine Learning https://netflixtechblog.com/new-series-creating-media-with-machine-learning-5067ac110bcd
Welcome to the first post in our multi‑part series on how Netflix is developing and using machine learning (ML) to help creators make better media—from TV shows to trailers to movies to promotional art and much more.

Where will AI go next? https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062859/where-will-ai-go-next/
Plus: What mass firings at Twitter mean for its AI workers. Related: [AI and I: The Age of Artificial Creativity](https://nesslabs.com/artificial

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Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on Web技术周刊 (Web Tech Weekly). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.