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...

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

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

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.

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…

At Spotify, change is a constant, and our agile coaches are here to help teams and leaders thrive as we evolve. With agile principles famously part of our DNA, Spotify doesn’t need “transformation…

Measuring a manager’s impact is hard since outcomes take time. The manager takes full responsibility for the team – be it stagnation, execution woes, poor collaboration, churn, or a lac…

«five measures: execution, strategic vision, people management, team growth, and organizational influence»

Good documentation has many benefits, but first and foremost it boosts engineers’ productivity. Here are a few tips to encourage a strong writing culture.

Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?

It’s important for programmers to continuously challenge themselves in order to avoid creative and technical stagnation. In the spirit of the new year, back in 2012, I compiled twelve month-sized…

One of the first introductions product manager might get into the world of architectural design is the concept of microservices. But what exactly are they?

There are so many brilliant posts on GPT-3, demonstrating what it can do, pondering its consequences, vizualizing how it works. With all these out there, it still took a crawl through several papers…

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«Consistency in helping other people in small acts build up to be more powerful than punctual spotlights on specific occasions.»

How humans work together to build software

«everything we’re working on in tech now like lean, kanban, kaizen, agile, etc, are things that car companies have already been working on and proving out for decades.»

For a decade now, I’ve been writing and sharing free tools, templates, and how-tos for managers. My hope is, of course, that these have all been useful for y...

David Nunez, an early hire at Stripe and Uber, shares his step-by-step playbook for establishing good internal documentation habits at your startup. He unpacks his tested tactics for creating a…

Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.

If you’ve more than a couple of years of experience in IT, you probably have stumbled upon the following quote: There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton Then, because it’s such a great quote, it evolved: There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) August 31, 2014 However, I think that the initial quote is

Today I will share some of the software engineering soft skills I have learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering...

«As engineers, we can sometimes rush to solve a problem right away so it feels like we're making progress or looks like we're being responsive to stakeholders»

In this blog, we share how we improved the daily edit-build-run developer experience using DevPods, our remote development environment. We will start with some of the initial challenges, the pain…