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"https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/05/budgeting-for-error.html", "published_at": "2012-05-13T21:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8880ffa9", "title": "Intuition, Effort, and Debugging Distributed Systems", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/05/intuition-effort-and-debugging.html", "published_at": "2012-05-02T16:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c892a2f00", "title": "Scaling in the Small", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/04/scaling-in-small.html", "published_at": "2012-04-27T01:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c896b5cf8", "title": "Scaling: It's Not What It Used To Be", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/04/scaling-its-not-what-it-used-to-be.html", "published_at": "2012-04-19T02:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c89bfee8e", "title": "Debug Your Career: Ask for Advice", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/04/debug-your-career-ask-for-advice.html", "published_at": "2012-04-13T01:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8a7f9f9c", "title": "Parallelism and the Limits of Languages", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/04/parallelism-and-limits-of-languages.html", "published_at": "2012-04-06T01:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8af3eec5", "title": "Yes, and...", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/03/yes-and.html", "published_at": "2012-03-29T01:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8bd9048f", "title": "Java console monitoring basics: The \"j\" series", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/03/java-console-monitoring-basics-j-series.html", "published_at": "2012-03-23T01:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8ccdaa6a", "title": "One Feature in One Month or Ten in Six?", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/03/one-feature-in-one-month-or-ten-in-six.html", "published_at": "2012-03-16T01:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8d240816", "title": "Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/03/why-im-moving-away-from-play-framework.html", "published_at": "2012-03-09T04:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8d3ac0e9", "title": "Three Reasons You Should Be Training Your Successor", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/03/three-reasons-you-should-be-training.html", "published_at": "2012-03-02T02:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8dc551a8", "title": "Networking woes in Java", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/02/networking-woes-in-java.html", "published_at": "2012-02-23T04:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8e19328b", "title": "The value of physical objects", "url": "https://www.elidedbranches.com/2012/02/value-of-physical-objects.html", "published_at": "2012-02-17T03:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c531-0c2d-71fe-a2ea-092c8e428d04", "title": "Quick Wins: Monitoring Request Times in Play with Coda Metrics", "url": 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Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI original ↗

31 May 2026

2025

Revisiting Manager READMEs original ↗

22 Nov 2025

Dude, Where's My Strategy?original ↗

5 Jun 2025

10 Years of Engineering Ladders original ↗

28 May 2025

2023

The Next Larger Context original ↗

28 Jul 2023

2022

The Product Culture Shift original ↗

14 Aug 2022

Structural Lessons in Engineering Management original ↗

15 Jan 2022

2021

How New Managers Fail Individual Contributors original ↗

9 Oct 2021

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding original ↗

12 Jun 2021

Management Basics: Determining a Performance Rating original ↗

29 May 2021

Make Boring Plans original ↗

24 Jan 2021

2020

Driving Cultural Change Through Software Choices original ↗

22 Nov 2020

The Management Flywheel original ↗

22 Sept 2020

Product for Internal Platforms original ↗

9 May 2020

2019

OPP (Other People's Problems)original ↗

12 May 2019

2018

I hate manager READMEs original ↗

23 Nov 2018

When is someone ready to manage managers?original ↗

17 Nov 2018

Engineering Productivity original ↗

22 Sept 2018

Delegation: When being helpful is actually hurting original ↗

29 Jul 2018

Are you out of alignment?original ↗

7 Mar 2018

Stop answering your own questions original ↗

13 Jan 2018

2017

How do managers* get stuck?original ↗

6 Sept 2017

How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer original ↗

6 Jan 2017

Hey Diddle Diddle, Data to Fiddle original ↗

5 Jan 2017

2016

Building and Motivating Engineering Teams original ↗

29 Nov 2016

Microservices: Real Architectural Patterns original ↗

19 Aug 2016

The Virtue of Hubris and The Value of Complaining original ↗

18 Jul 2016

The Virtues of Laziness and Impatience original ↗

10 Jun 2016

Thoughts on Take Home Interviews original ↗

5 May 2016

Ask the CTO: Getting Information without interruptions original ↗

28 Apr 2016

Ask the CTO: Navigating the hands-on to hands-off transition original ↗

12 Apr 2016

You can bring a horse to water...original ↗

1 Apr 2016

Ask the CTO: The Angry Employee original ↗

24 Feb 2016

In Defense of the Repetitive Business Book original ↗

22 Feb 2016

Framing original ↗

15 Feb 2016

What do I do with my time?original ↗

12 Feb 2016

Qualitative or Quantitative but always Analytical original ↗

28 Jan 2016

Hiring Engineering Managers: Screening for Potential original ↗

25 Jan 2016

2015

What is a Technology Company, Really?original ↗

31 Dec 2015

Reorgs Happen original ↗

2 Dec 2015

The Manager as Debugger original ↗

27 Nov 2015

Truth and Consequences of the Technical Track original ↗

6 Nov 2015

Open Source Culture original ↗

22 Oct 2015

Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose... What's Missing?original ↗

13 Oct 2015

Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods original ↗

1 Oct 2015

Have a Theory original ↗

30 Jul 2015

Ask the CTO: Going Rogue original ↗

21 Jul 2015

Vision and Trust: External and Internal Leadership original ↗

29 Jun 2015

The Trials and Temptations of the New Leader: "Cool Factor"original ↗

2 Jun 2015

Entrepreneurial Gap original ↗

21 May 2015

Get Curious original ↗

21 Mar 2015

On the role of CTO original ↗

9 Feb 2015

A Letter to My Team for Review Season original ↗

13 Jan 2015

Meaningful 2014: Everybody Hurts (notes on SparkCamp)original ↗

4 Jan 2015

2014

The Best Decision I Made in 2014 original ↗

6 Dec 2014

"Meritocracy" and the Tyranny of Structurelessness original ↗

22 Oct 2014

When Defining Reality, Don't Forget To Deliver Hope original ↗

10 Oct 2014

On Charm, Skills and Management original ↗

11 Aug 2014

Accountability and authoritarians original ↗

8 Jun 2014

Revisiting ideas: Promotion from Within original ↗

29 May 2014

Please stop threatening me with Moore's Law original ↗

11 May 2014

Getting From Here to There original ↗

6 Feb 2014

SOA and team structure original ↗

16 Jan 2014

2013: The Constant Introspection of Management original ↗

1 Jan 2014

2013

Replatforming? The Proof is in the Hackday original ↗

1 Aug 2013

ZooKeeper and the Distributed Operating System original ↗

20 May 2013

Branching Is Easy. So? Git-flow Is Not Agile.original ↗

9 Feb 2013

2012

Make it Easy original ↗

31 Dec 2012

Building a Global, Highly Available Service Discovery Infrastructure with ZooKeeper original ↗

21 Dec 2012

On Fit and Emotional Problem Solving original ↗

18 Nov 2012

Get Better Faster original ↗

15 Oct 2012

Becoming the Boss original ↗

9 Sept 2012

The Science of Development original ↗

21 Aug 2012

Being Right original ↗

13 Aug 2012

Growing New Leaders: A Modest Proposal original ↗

2 Aug 2012

The Siren Songs of Hack Day Projects original ↗

22 Jul 2012

On Yaks and Hacks original ↗

13 Jul 2012

Moneyball original ↗

5 Jul 2012

Code Reviews, Code Stories original ↗

21 Jun 2012

There Is No Number original ↗

15 Jun 2012

Corporate culture: A lesson in unintended consequences original ↗

9 Jun 2012

War Stories: Guava, Ehcache, Garbage Collection original ↗

1 Jun 2012

Hammers and Nails: Managing Complexity original ↗

27 May 2012

Process Debt and Team Scalability original ↗

18 May 2012

Budgeting for Error original ↗

13 May 2012

Intuition, Effort, and Debugging Distributed Systems original ↗

2 May 2012

Scaling in the Small original ↗

27 Apr 2012

Scaling: It's Not What It Used To Be original ↗

19 Apr 2012

Debug Your Career: Ask for Advice original ↗

13 Apr 2012

Parallelism and the Limits of Languages original ↗

6 Apr 2012

Yes, and...original ↗

29 Mar 2012

Java console monitoring basics: The "j" series original ↗

23 Mar 2012

One Feature in One Month or Ten in Six?original ↗

16 Mar 2012

Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework original ↗

9 Mar 2012

Three Reasons You Should Be Training Your Successor original ↗

2 Mar 2012

Networking woes in Java original ↗

23 Feb 2012

The value of physical objects original ↗

17 Feb 2012

Quick Wins: Monitoring Request Times in Play with Coda Metrics original ↗

10 Feb 2012

Developer Joy, Part 2 original ↗

2 Feb 2012

Developer Joy original ↗

26 Jan 2012