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Listened to 5 bootstrapped B2C tech startups with 10-30 engineers each sharing details on how their business evolved. Common themes:1. Infra costs. A huge focus. Almost all use @Cloudflare to

When at Uber, I remember this change to make sure a female interviewer is present on every hiring loop.The strangest thing happened.We started rejecting candidates just because they were unwilling

My economics of selling books:$20 book on @Gumroad - I net $19 (Gumroad takes 3.5% + $.30)$22.50 print book on Amazon - I net $9.50 (Amazon takes 40% of the

7 mobile eng industry predictions after months of research for my book, Building Mobile Apps at Scale:1. Kotlin Multiplatform will become the de facto *native* way to share code between

Where can you find mentors as a software engineer or engineering manager? A thread with free & paid mentorship resources.Do you know of more places? Add a comment to the

“Hiring is broken. It’s ridiculous how companies filter for algorithmic skills & artificial puzzles.”While this is indeed happening, I’ve talked with founders who are capitalising on having a great hiring

7 things that "Silicon Valley"-like companies "get" about sw engineers that traditional companies don't:1. Giving autonomy2. Caring about devs being motivated3. Access to data, code, docs internally. (Almost) to ever

As usual, @mipsytipsy breaks down what *good* engineering management incentives look like: https://charity.wtf/2020/09/06/if-management-isnt-a-promotion-then-engineering-isnt-a-demotionI’ll write about my (similar) take in more depth. But

“Why do companies ask data structure&algorithm questions? It’s not like you’d use this day to day...”At my past 3 companies - Skype/Microsoft, Skyscanner, Uber - I needed to use them

After reviewing 200+ dev resumes from software engineers who are job hunting - new grads, seniors, principals - here are the 9 most common pieces of feedback I've given.A thread

12 fully remote work observations as an engineering manager, three months in, in a company with distributed offices to start with.It feels like “execution-only” work is the same, even more

For the record, at Uber, we're moving many of our microservices to what @copyconstruct calls macroservices (wells-sized services).Exactly b/c testing and maintaining thousands of microservices is not only hard -