Weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books and anything else we felt compelled to share with others
Year 2 - Edition 21
A Fistful of Links is a weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books, and anything else we felt compelled to share with others, brought to you by Og Maciel and Mirek Długosz.
A Lesson in Resilience, from Anita, My Uber Driver!
By Samantha Bureau-Johnson
- Submitted by Og Maciel
“I recently met an amazing woman when hopping into an Uber, Her name was Anita. She was a lovely person. She was smart and curious. When I asked how she came to be an Uber driver, I wasn’t expecting her answer. However, it reminded me of how women face unique challenges and tough choices that are long lasting.”
Getting to grips with Kubernetes can be extremely difficult, with so much information floating around on the seas of the internet, it is sometimes very difficult to find the “core” pieces of information to understand Kubernetes, especially when seeing how dense the information is on kubernetes.io’s concepts pages and documentation. In part one of this “Kubernetes” blog series, we will explore the core concepts of Kubernetes to gain a base level of knowledge, so that we can together demystify Kubernetes.
The GIL, or Global Interpreter Lock, is a boolean value in the Python interpreter, protected by a mutex. The lock is used by the core bytecode evaluation loop in CPython to set which thread is currently executing statements.
Having a great week does not start on Monday. It starts Sunday night. It begins with what you set in your mind you are going to do, before you actually set out to do it.
It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are in your career. Writing is one of the few skills in life that everyone can benefit from. I’m not quick to make such a statement. And you can’t say that about many other things life.