The Best of Gergely Orosz
10+ most popular Gergely Orosz articles, as voted by our community.
Gergely Orosz on Distributed Systems
Distributed architecture concepts I learned while building a large payments system
I joined Uber two years ago as a mobile software engineer with some backend experience. I ended up building the payments functionality in the app - and rewriting the app on the way. Afterwards, I…
Gergely Orosz on Scrum
How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should take note of?
«Higher pay, justified by higher leverage. Companies that leverage engineers well, have no trouble paying close to the top of the market, or above it.»
Gergely Orosz on Software Engineering
Oncall Compensation
Which companies pay for oncall, and how much? Philosophies across the industry for paying for standby duty and numbers from 80 companies.
Resiliency in Distributed Systems
Two chapters from the book Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo
Gergely Orosz on Startups
Lessons from Bootstrapped Companies Founded by Software Engineers
We hear little about bootstrapped companies, despite bootstrapping being an effective way to get up and running. We cover five successful bootstrapped firms you’ve probably not heard of – until now
Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible?
Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?
Gergely Orosz on Technology
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry
Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry?
Gergely Orosz on webdev
The State of Frontend in 2022
Analysis of The State of Frontend survey with 3,700 respondents. What engineering practices and technologies are gaining momentum in the field?
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Holiday Book Recommendations for Engineering Managers, Software Engineers and Product Managers
Books perfect as reading or gifts during the end-of-year break for those working in tech. 95 book recommendations. I’ve always found books are an underrated way to learn something new. Great books…
Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers?
Critical thinking will only become more important as AI tools spread more. How can you get better at this, and why should you reject jargon and "thought leaders?"
Interesting Learning from Outages (Real-World Engineering Challenges #10)
A DNS mystery at Adevinta; A failover causing an outage at GitHub; The challenge whether to do a rollback at Reddit; and the difference between public and internal postmortems.
How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA)
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What happened and why?
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