The Best Articles in Software Engineering

How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams , Amazon W...

Faire’s engineering team grew from five to over 100 engineers in three years. Throughout this growth, we were able to sustain our pace of engineering execution by adhering to four guiding principles.

Task estimation is hard because you don't actually know what task estimation is. Let me fix that for you.

Find out how to develop effective tooling in an efficient manner including build vs buy and success metrics for developer satisfaction & productivity

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…

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…

In this series of short stories, I share tricky situations I’ve encountered while leading teams. These experiences have taught me invaluable leadership lessons and greatly influenced my manag…

Focus time is a positive predictor of flow.

Are you a software architect and often find it difficult to make architecture decisions in your team? This article shows you how to use architecture principles to make effective decisions in your…

Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As…

In the world of software engineering, the Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution are widely recognized as a fundamental framework for understan...

...but the other 10% are worth 1000x

GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions, and adopt OpenAI's GPT-4.

I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program runs in the cloud and we look at it when…

Unexpected time to write today… (I wrote a post about Product-Reality Fit yesterday). Have you ever been in a discussion about the definition of a problem and found the whole conversation going in…

You’re faced with a software bug, there are two routes you can take: Google for a fix -> apply it and verify it’s working -> move on Google for a fix -> apply…

«What really matters is training your mind to question things, to not accept an answer if it doesn’t make sense, to have a mindset that can make you understand the tool you’re using on a deeper level»

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Every week now, it seems, events on the ground make a fresh mockery of those who confidently assert what AI will never be able to do, or won’t do for centuries if ever, or is incoherent even …

Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question about planning. I enjoyed their response, “Ah yes, the ‘P’ word, planning.” That answer captured an…

Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.

At some point in your career you will be asked to manage a project. This can be intimidating, it can be scary, but it doesn’t have to be. We can leverage some time-honoured techniques, and adapt them…