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Timeout Limits The timeout limit in serverless architecture refers to the amount of time in which you are able to execute your functions. Most serverless architecture providers give a maximum timeout limit of 300 seconds. Anything that needs to run for longer than this, or which takes longer than this to run, is unsuitable for a serverless architecture setup.

Source: Leveraging Serverless Architecture – DZone Cloud

A comparison with medical degree programmes is informative. Medical degrees are similar to elite business degree programmes in that they admit only top-scoring students and in that earnings for those students are very high on average. They differ in that medical students are very unlikely to lead large companies or have incomes in the top 0.1% of the income distribution. As first shown in Hastings et al. (2013), admission to selective medical programmes leads to large earnings gains for low-SES students. In

Source: How elite universities shape upward mobility | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

But those are vanity concerns — not business ones.  For the business, my pride doesn’t matter.  So I can’t think things like “if I were a good programmer, I’d do this best practice, or defensively code against that, or have a diligence checklist.”  Instead, I have to frame all of those things through the lens of business value and return on investment. To circle back to an earlier theme, is it embarrassing to push something into production that requires us to hand-type dates instead of using a date picker?

Source: How to Write Software: 5 Lessons Learned from Running Businesses

I’ve experimented with countless time-management techniques, but the results leave me forced to agree: by far the biggest predictor of whether something gets done is whether it’s fun to do. The secret of productivity is simple: just do what you enjoy.

Source: Is the secret of productivity really just doing what you enjoy? | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian

Four roads we call customer service
Road 1: I can learn from you and make things better
Road 2: You’re an important customer and I can bring empathy and care to this moment to strengthen our relationship
Road 3: I can teach you something and make things better
Road 4: Go away

Source: Four roads we call customer service | Seth’s Blog

Winterson offers:

1. Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
2. Never stop when you are stuck. You may not be able to solve the problem, but turn aside and write something else. Do not stop altogether.
3. Love what you do.
4. Be honest with yourself. If you are no good, accept it. If the work you are ­doing is no good, accept it.
5. Don’t hold on to poor work. If it was bad when it went in the drawer it will be just as bad when it comes out.
6. Take no notice of anyone you don’t respect.
7. Take no notice of anyone with a ­gender agenda. A lot of men still think that women lack imagination of the fiery kind.
8. Be ambitious for the work and not for the reward.
9. Trust your creativity.
10. Enjoy this work!

Source: Jeanette Winterson’s 10 Tips on Writing – Brain Pickings

My work with Dr. Rao reveals similar problems: Employees who start big programs are often celebrated, but rarely those who end old, obsolete and ineffective programs and practices. And managers who lord over big teams and keep adding underlings are rewarded with prestigious titles and big raises—even when their ever-expanding army of bureaucrats adds unnecessary rules and procedures that sap time and energy from people who do the most important work. Instead, the best leaders discourage this addition sickn

Source: How Bosses Waste Their Employees’ Time – WSJ

The Eclipse Foundation recently announced two milestone achievements in September 2018: the migration of GlassFish source code from Oracle has been completed; and the Java EE TCK is now open-sourced at Eclipse. GlassFish Application Server The migration of GlassFish source code from Oracle has been completed. Considered a major milestone for the advancement of Jakarta EE and a new era for GlassFish, the announcement continued to say:

Source: A New Era for GlassFish

TLDR: On a personal level Efficiency is about staying at the PPF while Productivity is about extending the PPF.
I use to tell people how certain professions affect the Production Possibility Frontier.
 

(image from Investopedia)
Doctors try to keep output at a certain point along the PPF. This is because doctors try to keep you alive and healthy for as long as possible.
The fewer people there are the lower the PPF is.
Lawyers supposedly create transactions in a low trust environment. They allow people to operate at a certain efficiency. The creation of trust or trust substitutes by lawyers may also allow us to operate near the PPF.
Engineers like lawyers can allow us to operate near or at the PPF. Engineers also when they invent new processes allow us to extend the PPF.
Researchers/Inventors/Innovators more so than engineers allow us to extend the PPF. This can be illustrated by silicon technology. The science of transforming sand to silicon has made an abundant resource the foundation of what some people term as the 4th industrial revolution.
 

I saw this post in Medium: https://medium.com/swlh/focus-on-productivity-not-efficiency-4ed4fe9a454f
This has made me realize that a lot of people I know do the efficiency thing more than the productivity thing. Efficiency mostly is doing the same thing only a little bit better while increasing productivity in the expanding mindset means expanding what you do.
I know it is not an exact example but it’s close.
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