We are back! Happy New Year everyone. 🤙

Hopefully, your end of year wasn't spoiled by the various security breaches and you are all ready for more learning.

How to become a better mentor

What is a mentor? You might call it coaching or supporting, but basically a mentor is someone in your team that takes extra care of new developers and supports them in their first couple of weeks or months. This usually involves anything from making sure they have the right tools and access rights needed to perform their job, help them when they have domain or code related questions or just making sure they have someone to sit with in the lunchroom their first couple of days.

refine - 100% open-source, headless React framework for building CRUD apps (sponsor)

refine seamlessly works with any custom design or UI framework you favor. For convenience, it ships with ready-made integrations for Ant Design, Material UI, Mantine, and Chakra UI. It eliminates the repetitive tasks demanded by CRUD operations and provides industry-standard solutions for critical parts like authentication, access control, routing, networking, state management, and i18n.

Improve Team Experience with Developer Onboarding Documentation

You joined the new company, got a new computer, downloaded some necessary tools and today is your first day in the project. It’s already 10am but no one is contacting you. To avoid this for your new hires follow onboarding good practices with developer onboarding checklist and documentation.

How to Get That Staff Engineer Promotion

I often see the question asked about how to make the jump from Senior Engineer to Staff Engineer, which makes sense because this jump is really challenging. How do you actually do it?

Navigating power dynamics as a manager

Power differences are inevitable in teams. Here are some ways to reduce the power imbalance as a manager.

How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation

Learn how Netflix uses GraphQL federation for its API architecture, offering clients a unified API and backend devs flexibility and service isolation.

And I'll see you next Monday! 👋