We were trying to secure an important customer. They wanted an API to access our data. My team scrambled to assemble an endpoint. One of my engineers was very gung-ho about stress testing the API. He would throw everything he knew about breaking a system at it. And then we added SSL. We immediately saw […]
Suman growing Rockstor to 10 paid users
I caught up with Suman of Rockstor recently. I previously wrote about Suman managing an open source community. He’s been working on Rockstor for over 3 years, funding everything by himself. He needs to find a way to keep the open source spirit alive for himself and at the same time pay rent. We live in San Francisco. He […]
How does your team handle a stolen laptop?
A member of my team lost a company laptop. San Francisco is a harsh teacher if you leave a backpack visible in a car. Doesn’t matter where you’ve park, or how quickly you think you will be back – someone will come by and check. And they will smash your windows. I don’t think he […]
First day of a new hire
I was gung-ho about my first job out of college. I arrived at the lobby early in the morning eager to start. I’ve been in school the whole time and I wanted to work on many different projects, show impact and climb the career ladder as a junior hardware engineer. I had to wait. Everyone […]
Flabby coding muscles
I can’t code all the time. I end up patching code here and there. What I’ve noticed is I can trace programs easily. Explaining why something broke is no problem. Carving up the code base is ok – I can see how things are put together. If I remove myself from the code base for […]
Backend is my darling
I encourage engineers to explore and find new projects to improve the overall system. I began noticing most projects were backend instead of the frontend, which was around 90%. This also meant 9/10 engineers eventually became backend-focused. Most of the fires and outages came from the backend meaning my attention was spent there. I’m also […]
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