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Awesome CTO
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A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with the emphasis on startups
Contents
- General
- Hiring
- Management
- Development process
- Architecture
- Technologies
- Startups
- Related stuff
- Product
- Marketing
- More links
General
- The Different CTO Roles - Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO)
- Is it required to be a developer to become a CTO? (Quora)
- Three Golden Rules to Finding a CTO
- Becoming a CTO
- VP Engineering vs CTO - Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures)
- What makes for a successful CEO and CTO relationship in a startup? (Quora)
- #define CTO - Greg Brockman (Stripe CTO)
Hiring
- The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing - Joel Spolsky (StackOverflow co-founder)
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel Spolsky
- Why Can't Programmers.. Program? - Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow co-founder)
- We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else - Jeff Atwood
- Engineering interview process at Stripe (Quora)
- Improving Our Engineering Interview Process (Foursquare)
- Hitting the High Notes - Joel Spolsky
Management
- The mythical 10x programmer - Salvatore Sanfilippo (author of Redis)
- The Engineer/Manager Pendulum - Charity Majors
- Software Engineering at Google
- The Atlassian Team Playbook
- Valve Employee Handbook
- Basecamp Employee Handbook
- GitLab Team Handbook
- Google re:Work
- 44 Engineering Management Lessons
Development process
- Scrum / Agile
- CI / CD
- Git
- Planning
- Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel Spolsky (StackOverflow co-founder)
- [Book] The Mythical Man-Month
- Crisis
- How to Write a Postmortem
- List of Post-mortems (GitHub)
- Startup Lessons Learned - Five Whys (Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup)
Architecture
- Twelve-Factor App
- Reactive Manifesto
- Microservices – Please, don’t (also: HackerNews discussion)
- Shrinking microservices to functions
- Design patterns for microservices
- Serverless architecture (Quora)
- NoSQL Databases: a Survey and Decision Guidance
- Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
- 10 Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes
- How I Write Tests
- Lambda Architecture
- Evolutionary Database Design (Martin Fowler)
- Database Migrations Done Right
Technologies
- Algorithms
- Javascript
- Machine Learning
- Awesome Machine Learning (GitHub)
- Best resources of everyday ML learning (Quora)
- Big scale
- Security
- Cloud
Startups
- What are the things startups have to get right? (Quora)
- 85 Things I learned being a CEO
- What’s the Second Job of a Startup CEO?
- Things I will tell my kids if they become entrepreneurs
- What do VCs really look for when making investments? (Quora)
- What would a CTO equity be for a small startup? (Quora)
- As an employee of a startup, how do you know when to quit? (Quora)
- Pitch deck collection from VC funded startups
Related stuff
- Knowledge-Sharing Architects As An Alternative to Coding Architects
- Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (also: HackerNews discussion)
- What are best practices of experienced programmers? (Quora)
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
- 2016 European Software Development Salary Survey (O'Reilly)
- DevOps: Bringing development and operations together (Atlassian)
- DataOps
Product
Marketing
More links
- Awesome Falsehood
- Engineering blogs
- Awesome Awesomeness (GitHub)
- Awesome.re (GitHub)
- Chief Technology Officer vs Coder Thinker Organizer (GitHub)
- Socal CTO
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