Elided Branches

*May also apply to senior ICs Earlier this year, I wrote a piece called “How do Individual Contributors Get Stuck?” This was an attemp...

Occasionally, you may be asked to give constructive feedback on your peers, perhaps as part of review season. If you aren’t a naturally cri...

When I worked in finance ages ago, there was a system used by many (but not me!) that was basically a combination of a gigantic distributed ...

I have agreed to give a guest lecture for a class at Yale , and they’ve asked me to speak about “building and motivating engineering teams” ...

A dissection of our favorite folk architecture Introduction I’m fascinated by the lore and mystery behind microservices. As a conce...

In my previous post, I discussed the leadership virtues of Laziness and Impatience . But as you may know, I neglected one of the core virtue...

This is an excerpt from my work in progress, a book on engineering management. If you're interested in getting occasional updates you ca...