Elided Branches

I've been a serious manager for a little over a year now, and it has been my biggest challenge of 2013. Previously I had managed small ...

It's pretty common for teams, especially startups, to get to a point with their tech stack where the platform they've been working o...

From the draft folder, this sat moldering for a few months. Since I think the topic of "distributed coordination as a library/OS fundam...

I've had roughly the same conversation four times now. It starts with the question of our deployment/development strategy, and some way ...

One of my overriding principles is: make it easy for people to do the right thing. This seems like it should be a no-brainer, but it was n...

This is the written version of a presentation I made at the ZooKeeper Users Meetup at Strata/Hadoop World in October, 2012 ( slides availabl...

One of the biggest challenges Rent the Runway has is the challenge of getting women comfortable with the idea of renting. That means a lot o...