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Technical Leadership, Reliability Engineering, Growth
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When a team is too big
What signs to look for and how to increase productivity with all-round skillset
Staff archetypes are anti-patterns
Why the Staff+ archetypes are counterproductive and what to do instead?
Staff+ self-onboarding questions
Useful questions to get a head start as a newly hired Staff, Principal, or Distinguished engineer
Premature optimization
A mental model to detect and prevent optimizing the wrong thing, at the wrong time, or for the wrong reasons
Async map with limited parallelism in JavaScript
Using generators and promises to control backpressure
Gen AI assimilation
Assimilating creative work ignoring copyright law
Your business value
You should always generate more value than the perks the company puts on the table.
VOD
How vertical/horizontal organizational distance impacts the quality of information network, decisions, execution and deliveries?
Open prison theory
An invitation to intellectual humility, scientific curiosity, and collaborative exploration.
Mapping reliability to accountability
Holding engineering leadership accountable for the reliability of engineering artifacts
Engineering grading systems
Why engineering maturity models are counter-productive, what are the real questions we should be asking, and how to lead the tech to a better place?
Best Practice vs Fit Practice
Breaking free from interpretation, time, environment, and exaggeration
Accountable vs Responsible
When to separate accountability from responsibility and why it usually doesn't matter?
Staff Engineer vs Engineering Manager
When do you need a Staff Engineers? What's the accountability model with or without?
How can engineer leaders stay technical?
Various ways and actionable tips to keep your technical axe sharp and stay relevant
Cargo culting
How value dominance, shallow understanding, and imitation hurts software, systems, and organizations
SLI vs KPI
Is Service Level Indicator (SLI) the same as Key Performance Indicator (KPI)?
Breaking a role to multiple titles
Why SMEs and specialists should be an exception and generalists the default?
Architect = UX
Why software architect is a misnomer?
Ivory Tower Architect
The insult to any self-respecting software engineer