<p>Like many engineers, I got thrown into management without any real guidance. I thought management was just telling people what to do. I thought there wasn’t any real science to it; you just needed to feel your way through it. I was wrong: there’s a whole field of study here, and you can learn a lot by…
When I talk about balancing being directive and empowering as a leader, the distinction between being kind and being nice often comes up.
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I don’t think any little girl grows up with the goal of “I want to be an OSS Android browser developer” and to be totally honest, even as an adult I just kin...
Working hard is a great way to accelerate learning, but it can come at a cost. This post shares my experience and lessons taken from great role models I've found along the way.
A Product Engineer’s Guide to Working with Platform Engineers
Sharing my understanding of DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering based on the first-hand experience in SRE and PE domains.
The first half of this conversation is a searingly honest account of...
When his phone wakes him at two in the morning, operations engineer Andy Pearson knows it’s bad news. The next sixteen minutes are going to get intense.
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中文 First of all, thank Orange Tsai for giving me the opportunity to participate in Black Hat USA 2021 in Las Vegas. This article would not exist without this ticket. I am going to share my thoughts and some technical topics on the two days of Black Hat USA 2021 in this article. The hotel and the conference venue are…
There’s a collection of friends that I have a standing videochat with every couple of weeks. We had been meeting at 8am, but several people developed conflicts at that time, including me. I h…
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
Discover how Authzed's software engineers adapted their application stack to run on Apple's new M1-based MacBook Pro, using Python, Go, Typescript, React, and gRPC.
The latest Future Forum Pulse, a quarterly survey of more than 10,000 knowledge workers around the world, reveals that executives’ preference to return to the office is threatening employee satisfaction and retention, particularly for women, working parents and people of color: About the survey and key findings The…
With companies taking advantage of Free and Open Source Software far more often than they contribute back, and harming users in the process, is it even worth working on anymore?
Everyone in tech seems to have a “terrible tech interview” story. The topic quietly orbits in the ether of our industry and periodically bursts through the a...
We encounter a lot of organizations talking about or attempting to implement SRE as part of our consulting at Real Kinetic. We’ve even discussed and debated ourselves, ad nauseam, how we can apply it at our own product company, Witful. There’s a brief, unassuming section in the SRE book tucked away towards the tail…
Are you curious about breaking into software consulting? In this post, I’ve laid out 7 steps to living a fulfilling life as a consultant…
One of the repeating motifs of recruiting in the software industry are mantras of “talent”: “We recruit the best talent”, “talent attracts talent”, “we value talent” and so on. Some companies have so called “head of talent”, “talent acquisition”, “talent development” professionals on their payroll - basically a…
My approach to creating OKR for the personal life.
If you've never had to wrangle a difficult client, this blog post is your opportunity to prepare. Disagreements happen, some people handle them better than others, how we conduct ourselves in these situations have a profound impact on the trajectory of our careers.
I've come across the book System Design Interview: an Insider's Guide by accident (paperback book [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CMF2CQF], and online course [https://bytebytego.com/]). I was looking for good book resources after several people have been asking me how they can get better at building
I recently spent some time trying to write a set of general guidelines for what to monitor in a software system. I came up with this list:
I went through a lot of interviews after being laid off by RStudio earlier this year. Some really impressed me---in particular, I think Automattic 's hiring process was excellent---but many were haphazard, confusing, or misguided . I'm not alone in feeling this way: Behroozi2019 found that the questions asked in…
