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Ivan H's avatar

Do you have any more “subject-killing” resources?

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Ryan Peterman's avatar

Off the top of my head, two come to mind:

1. "How To Win Friends and Influence People" -> soft skills

2. "Introduction to Algorithms" also known as CLRS -> algorithms and data structures

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Ivan H's avatar

Thank you!

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aspiringIC's avatar

Insightful article for ICs like me. Very helpful to plan the career ahead and look out for opportunities within the team. Thanks Ryan

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Pete's avatar

Are infrastructure engineers typically SREs or is that different? What do those responsibilities typically look like as an infra eng?

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Ryan Peterman's avatar

Great question. Infrastructure engineers are software engineers (not SRE)

Infrastructure teams manage underlying components and systems that product teams use. Because they are further from the user, they don’t usually have as much product design, user research, or product management presence

In my experience, these teams are driven mostly by engineers

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Mitchel Inaju's avatar

This was a very much needed article, thank you Ryan

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Ryan Peterman's avatar

Thanks for reading Mitchel!

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Throwaway2000's avatar

Great read. Also very interesting to know there's a designer at the company considered one of the best.

Do you have a place where we can directly reach out to you?

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Ryan Peterman's avatar

Glad you enjoyed it!

You can reach out by replying to emails as a subscriber or feel free to message me on LinkedIn/Twitter

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Sairam Sundaresan's avatar

I really like how clear your writing is, Ryan. Enjoyed reading this one

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Ryan Peterman's avatar

Thank you Sairam, I've been enjoying your writing too :)

It has been a great resource to get some general understanding of machine learning. The article on diffusion models was particularly great because I've been curious about them recently

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Sairam Sundaresan's avatar

Thanks, Ryan. I'm glad you found it useful :)

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