Scale your JavaScript, scale your team
Building JavaScript applications that will scale smoothly can be challenging — in terms of design, in terms of technology, and in terms of handling large teams of developers with lots of hands in the...
View ArticleMoneyball for software engineering, part 2
Brad Pitt was recently nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane in the movie “Moneyball,” which was also nominated for Best Picture. If you’re not...
View ArticleThe many sides to shipping a great software project
Chris Vander Mey, CEO of Scaled Recognition, and author of a new O’Reilly book, Shipping Greatness, lays out in this video some of the deep lessons he learned during his years working on some very...
View ArticleLeading Indicators
In a conversation with Q Ethan McCallum (who should be credited as co-author), we wondered how to evaluate data science groups. If you’re looking at an organization’s data science group from the...
View ArticleKate Matsudaira: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand Ops
While automation is clearly making everyone’s lives who work in Operations much better, startup founder Kate Matsudaira (@katemats) acknowledges that “No one ever does their work in a vaccum.” You can...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 February 2016
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (NY Times) — As the researchers studied the groups, however, they noticed two behaviors that all the good teams generally shared. First, on...
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