One morning my CTO called me at 6 in the morning, “The site is down! Fix it!” I examined the system. I poked around, and the system recovered. No big deal. I reported everything was okay. And then the hiccups began occurring frequently, correlated with the increase of customers and processing of data. The outages […]
How many developer weeks (dukes) will that take?
My friend received his first opportunity to plan the roadmap. He’s surprised because in his previous role, he was handed features to code by a product manager. Now he gets to determine what he’ll be building and when he’ll deliver them. He feels a new sense of control he’s never had before. He decided to […]
Staying technical by reading research papers
Almost everyone close to me has a PhD. I never seriously considered one because I needed a break from school. So I got a job. Having more money didn’t hurt. I remember my coworkers telling me once I work in industry I’ll never return. They’re right. I never went back. One skill I developed during […]
Shadows over the replacement
He decided to go. He’s my best friend from college. I convinced him to join the startup I was at and he built a major component of the system with his skills in C++. After about two years he left for a job in a different country, working on computer graphics for movies. His code […]
What’s everyone doing? (or Black Sheep Wall)
Have you heard of the term ‘fog of war’? I was introduced to this concept playing Starcraft back in middle school. The entire screen is shrouded in darkness if I don’t have units in that region. I never got decent at the game so when I was having a hard time with the single-player campaign, I […]
Binary status, done when it’s done
You ask for a status update. The engineer stands up, clears his throat, and begins a long epic of wrangling Cassandra to integrate with Rails. The process uncovered a strange issue in Bash not being able to get the right Ruby version, so the engineer had to go talk to another engineer which thought he […]
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