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On Sub-Second Page Load Times…
When I worked in e-commerce, a big metric of our engineering team was always how long it took for our average user to load our site – not just the HTML, but all assets and for the page to be completely loaded. Other similar considerations included consideration for clutter, image sizes, network traffic back and…
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Database Design From The Ground Up
At the heart of every software project lies the database—The database is the foundation that determines how data is stored, accessed, and updated in every software project. Whatever your definition of a database may be (Relational, NoSQL, TimeSeries, etc.). Database theory provides the principles for structuring and organizing this data efficiently with one of the…
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Movies & Work
There’s this quote from a series I watched a long time ago. The main character is put in charge of a company, and he goes through a complicated growth period where he says (and I’m paraphrasing), “It’s my duty to protect the workers and make the right decisions.” That resonated with me a lot. As…
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What Does Leading A Development Team Mean To Me
The Head of Engineering (VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering, CTO, etc.) is the person in charge of steering the ship, but with a twist—they allow minor direction changes by the team. These slight deviations are fine and can even be beneficial because they offer opportunities for learning and growth, as long as the overall…
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Efficient Hiring & Prioritizing Candidate Experience
In tech recruitment, it’s common to get tangled in complex and convoluted interview procedures that lean towards complexity rather than efficiency and can be a pretty big rabbit hole. However, as an engineering manager, it’s important for me to acknowledge that a candidate’s time is just as important and valuable as mine or any other…
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My Inner Monologue
What does that steady, somewhat quiet, but definitely existing hum in your head sound like? I’ve come to learn that this may be an unfamiliar concept for some, but for others like myself, it’s a constant conversation, a constant stream of consciousness that flows from the moment I wake up to the time I fall…
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Understanding And Empathy At Every Level
Since I started working, the role of leadership in technology companies has undergone a profound transformation where the idea of a lead, manager, director, VP, and CTO all mean something else from 15 or 20 years ago. Gone are the days when corporate multi-level hierarchical structures dictated that certain individuals held exclusive knowledge and decision-making…
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Development Boards In Software Development & The Importance Clarity and Progress
There’s no doubt that software development projects can be complex, timelines can be tight, and collaboration is paramount to solving the problems in those projects. Having a clear overview of what everyone is working on becomes paramount when making decisions, determining timelines, and keeping people who depend on milestones up to date. Acting as the…
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So… I always get these wrong
組に相は祖を狙い、阻まれる粗い。 そうにそはそをそい、そまれるそい。 Sou ni so wa so o soi, somareru soi. Within a group, mutual respect aims at ancestors, obstructed by coarseness.