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Employees Leave — Deal With (and Benefit From!) It
Yeah, we’ve all seen the phrase “People Leave Managers, Not Companies”, right? It might have been in an article , or a book , but the baseline story is always — so logically — some variation of If you are a good manager, then people like working for you, and will stay around, but if you are a bad manager, then people do not like working for you, and will, therefore, leave It’s all so straightforward and logical, right? Well, it turns out that it is also a load of bullshit. Raghuram et al. (•)studied this exact issue, and discovered that, employees leave both good and bad bosses at almost the same rates . The reasoning, as it turns out is also just as logical — and as with most things in the real world, not as “simple” a story as we would like it to be. Basically, good managers level-up their employees to the point where they are now ripe for the picking by others. Good leadership doesn’t reduce employee turnover precisely beca...
Everything you wanted to know about Postgres Storage, but were afraid to ask
Great, great writeup here Ok, its funny In the previous section, we've said that some column can go beyond the size of a page if their types are TOAST-able. Let's do an overview of TOAST. First, TOAST stands for The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique , probably the best acronym in the history of Computer Science. but much, much more importantly, it goes into - just enough - detail about what is actually going on underneath the hood to be completely worth your while Just go read it...
