Advice for engineering managers on making the leap to director, covering role definitions, promotion strategies, and mindset shifts.
Explores the common anxieties engineers face when transitioning between management and individual contributor roles, focusing on career path fears.
Explores the difference between high-level intent and low-level requirements in software engineering and how to effectively navigate between them.
A developer reflects on the realities and challenges of running a solo tech business, contrasting it with traditional employment.
A software engineer shares a personal list of questions to ask interviewers during a job interview, focusing on team, tech stack, and company culture.
A software engineer shares their journey from freelancing to landing a full-time role without a formal interview process.
A software engineer reflects on their journey from a passionate Linux advocate to a pragmatic computer user focused on getting work done.
Explores applying scientific principles and engineering pragmatism to modern software development to improve practices and avoid common pitfalls.
A guide outlining a realistic path to becoming a web developer in 2022, covering foundational learning, education options, and job hunting.
A founder's reflection on evolving from an 'engineering-driven' to a more balanced company culture that equally values design, product, and business expertise.
A software engineer's personal review of 2021, covering career moves to remote roles, tech stack changes, blog improvements, and personal milestones.
Analyzes post-deployment ML issues and categorizes them to advocate for better monitoring tools, using Zillow's case as an example.
A software engineer critiques the poor interview processes at many tech companies and argues that a great candidate experience can be a competitive advantage.
A DevOps specialist shares how software engineering practices improved an academic infectious disease modeling project, applying web dev skills to research.
A critical analysis of the 4privacy Kickstarter project, examining its privacy promises, technology, and potential economic and trust challenges.
A critique of modern software development's neglect of reliability and robustness, arguing that broken software has become the norm.
Kent C. Dodds announces his redesigned website, detailing its extensive learning resources for software engineers, including courses, podcasts, and workshops.
A curated list of DevOps resources, including exercises, the 2021 State of DevOps report insights, and a GitHub Actions debugging tip.
Analyzes how cognitive biases like prevention bias and status-quo bias lead to inefficient software deployment practices like 'No Friday Deploys'.
Argues that software engineering interviews must include operations questions to ensure developers understand production systems and operational excellence.
