GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency: How we built the next evolution of GitHub Enterprise using GitHub

Today, we announced that GitHub Enterprise Cloud will offer data residency, starting with the European Union (EU) on October 29, 2024, to address a critical desire from customers and enable an optimal, unified experience on GitHub for our customers. Data residency and what it means for developers We’ve heard for…

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Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Product Lead at Riverside)

Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Gamma—A new way to present, powered by AI• WorkOS—Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs• Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments — Tal Raviv is a product manager at Riverside, where he joined as its…

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Get Perplexity Pro free for 1 year

All Lenny’s Newsletter paid subscribers now get access to one year of Perplexity Pro free—a $20/month offer. Read more Read More

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Community Wisdom: 200th issue + Convincing leadership to invest in UX, tips for managing your calendar, managing reports at different skill levels, pitching new product ideas, and more

👋 Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of ✨ Community Wisdom ✨ a subscriber-only email, delivered every Saturday, highlighting the most helpful conversations in our members-only Slack community. Read more Read More

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Enhancing the GitHub Copilot ecosystem with Copilot Extensions, now in public beta

The history of technology is, in many ways, a history of platforms and their ecosystems. From the early days of personal computing with Windows and macOS to the mobile and cloud revolution, the most impactful tech products have rarely stood alone. Instead, they’ve served as foundations upon which entire systems…

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Software as a public good

Open source software has come a long way from its origins as a niche endeavor of technical experts. Recent studies have shown that open source software can be found in 96% of code bases, and its demand-side value to the economy is estimated at $ 8.8 trillion. Its open model…

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The 10 best tools to green your software

This July, the world experienced the hottest day in recorded history according to NASA. The graph below, from a GitHub repository of open access climate visuals, shows the longer version of this story, where carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses have increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The…

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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

Vidhya Arvind, Rajasekhar Ummadisetty, Joey Lynch, Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra, a NoSQL database known for its…

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Try out OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot and Models

Starting today, we’re opening a preview to give developers an opportunity to test OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini, hosted on Azure, in both GitHub Copilot and Models. Sign up to get access to use OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot Chat with Visual Studio Code and in the playground with GitHub Models.…

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Food for Agile Thought #460: Copy-Paste Agile, How to Improve Retention, Psychological Safety Myth, Your Guide to the Kano Model

TL; DR: Copy-Paste Agile — Food for Agile Thought #460 Welcome to the 460th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 42,798 peers. This week, Maarten Dalmijn argues that the era of one-size-fits-all Agile is over, advocating for agnostic approaches tailored to organizational contexts over mere Copy-Paste…

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Founder Mode: The Dark Side of a Hyped Model

TL;DR: The Perils of Founder Mode This article delves into the darker aspects of Founder Mode, popularized by Paul Graham and others. It offers a critical perspective for agile practitioners, product leaders, startup founders, and managers who embrace this paradigm and probably fall victim to survivorship bias; the Jobs and…

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Food for Agile Thought #461: Bringing Problems to Leaders, Backlash for Product Managers, Dangerous Founder Mode, Fueling Product Discovery

TL; DR: Bringing Problems to Leaders — Food for Agile Thought #461 Welcome to the 461st edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 42,821 peers. This week, Ant Murphy advocates for bringing problems to leaders to foster collaboration and empathy over the ‘don’t bring me problems, bring…

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Podcast: Techniques to Tackle Technical Debt with Dustin Thostenson

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dunstin Thostenson about techniques to recognise and tackle technical debt. By Dustin ThostensonRead More

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Land your dream job in today’s market: negotiation tactics, job search councils, and more | Phyl Terry (Author, “Never Search Alone”)

Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. — Brought to you by: • Sidebar—Accelerate your career by surrounding yourself with extraordinary peers• Sprig—Build products for people, not data points• Dovetail—The customer insights hub for product teams — Phyl Terry is the author of Never Search Alone, which I’ve seen so many…

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🧠 Community Wisdom: Improving internal communication, working on retention, increasing your odds of getting promoted, when to do SOC 2 compliance, and more

👋 Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of ✨ Community Wisdom ✨ a subscriber-only email, delivered every Saturday, highlighting the most helpful conversations in our members-only Slack community. A big thank-you to this month’s community sponsor, Dovetail! If you work in product, you need convincing ways to influence your team that you’re…

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