Code, Noted· 2 min read
In praise of the quiet quarter
No incidents, no migrations, no launches. A short argument that the uneventful quarter is an engineering artifact, and that someone built it.
#operations#leadership
Tagged: leadership
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Engineering ladders and load paths
Career ladders are load-bearing structures. What an organization promotes for is what its systems will eventually be made of.
#leadership#careers#incentives
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The meeting that replaced the design doc
Organizations drift from written design to verbal consensus one calendar invite at a time. What the written form was doing, and how to notice it going.
#leadership#design-docs#writing
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Staff engineers and standing systems
The senior IC role was formalized around new construction. The harder and rarer craft is stewardship of systems that must not fall down.
#leadership#staff-engineers#careers
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The platform team's second act
Every platform team is founded to pave roads and judged, three years later, as a toll booth. The second act decides which one it becomes.
#platform-teams#leadership#devops