This is a collection of my favorite writing from over the years. It ranges a bit from personal stories to technical advice. That said, I hope you’ll enjoy all of it!
⭐ Write five, then synthesize: good engineering strategy is boring.
⭐ Managing technical quality in a codebase.
⭐ Your first 90 days as CTO or VP Engineering.
⭐ How the Digg team was acquihired.
⭐ Reclaim unreasonable software.
⭐ How to invest in technical infrastructure.
⭐ How to evolve an engineering organization.
⭐ Why limiting work-in-progress works.
⭐ Metrics for the unmeasurable.
⭐ Infrastructure planning: users, baselines and timeframes.
⭐ Introducing SREs, TPMs and other specialized roles.
⭐ Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity.
⭐ Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
⭐ Some of my favorite technical papers.
⭐ Product management in infrastructure eng.
⭐ Inclusion in the first shift.
⭐ The physics of Cloud expansion.
⭐ Cold sourcing: hire someone you don't know.
⭐ Engineering management stuff I learned in 2017.
⭐ From lambda to kappa and dataflow paradigms.
⭐ Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.
⭐ Developing service oriented architectures.
⭐ Introduction to architecting systems for scale.