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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Revisiting ideas: Promotion from Within

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Ages ago a friend of mine wrote a rather seminal post on "promotion from within" . It is interesting to go back and read this post...
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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Please stop threatening me with Moore's Law

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For as long as I can remember, Moore's Law has been one of the great tech bogeymen. It's going to end, we fret, and the way we wri...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Getting From Here to There

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As part of my work to make myself a better leader, I'm reading the book " What Got You Here Won't Get You There ." The phr...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

SOA and team structure

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This week I sat on a panel to discuss my experiences moving to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) at Rent the Runway. Many of the topics...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

2013: The Constant Introspection of Management

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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 ...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Replatforming? The Proof is in the Hackday

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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...
Monday, May 20, 2013

ZooKeeper and the Distributed Operating System

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