Friday Links: Autopilot, inventory, and Japan

Hey there. I’m writing the prequel of Street-Smart Coding. This book is my case against obsessing over syntax to stand out as a coder. I’m writing it for my younger me who believed his only job was to write code. Younger me needed to learn that code alone won’t save him or make him stand out. It’s a manifesto for mastering the skills that create real impact. That’s why I’m calling it Street-Smart Coding Manifesto. It’s about the why, while Street-Smart Coding is about the how. You can preorder your copy today. As usual, here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. Here’s Shopify’s deep dive on how they handle inventory reservations (13min), replacing Redis with MySQL. #2. One lesson coding has to learn from aviation: automation-induced complacency. It means, the better the autopilot, the worse the pilot (2min). That’s what’s happening with AI. #3. Product managers exist because we coders speak another language. That makes the relationship dysfunctional. But here’s a…