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It's all just leadership after all
https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/its-all-just-leadership-after-all • 4 min
Managers and senior individual contributors: it's all the same.
The disease of process people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDg88rSG8U
Lenny Rachitsky interviews world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and...
A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11 Million+ Users on Amazon's AWS
http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-to-scaling-to-11-million-users-on-amazons.html • 20+ min
How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams , Amazon W...
How to Build Software like an SRE
https://www.willett.io/posts/precepts • 4 min
I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I…
How to plan?
https://kellanem.com/notes/how-to-plan • 16+ min
How to plan? How hard could it be? 4k words scribbled down on a sunny October afternoon for people in tech observing the Season’s Traditional Annual Planning Process, inspired by a recent interview…
Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv0o9o4MRh0
Claire Hughes Johnson is the former COO at Stripe where she helped scale the company from a small startup to the legendary company it is today. She also spen...
The world's smallest PNG
https://evanhahn.com/worlds-smallest-png • 8 min
It takes 67 bytes to make one black pixel. How does it work?
Manage Your Capacity, Not Your Time
https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/manage-your-capacity-not-your-time • 4 min
We obsess over managing our time. However, we should focus on managing our capacity instead: it's our ability to do our best work.
Those five spare hours each week.
https://lethain.com/five-spare-hours • 1 min
One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology Officers should actively write code. There are a lot of strongly held positions, from “Real CTOs…