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I guess this article completely ignores something like fargate which has none of the problems listed.

Hate the title only because it sells itself way to short. The article talks about a lot of things the senior engineer is getting done... I hope to god he has a competent lead or ma…

Completely agree, I left out the "other side" of leadership, working with other departments and senior leaders as it seemed out of scope of the question. I put "optics" in quotes t…

As someone who's been leading people for 8+ years and also who remembers why I have left places... here is a long but comprehensive list. 1) Pay Fair at hire and try to keep it wit…

Location: NYC / New York Remote: Opened Willing to relocate: Opened Technologies: Javascript, Java, Python, Scala, PHP, NodeJS, React, Spark, MySql, Postgres, Redis, Druid, VoltDB,…

Scrum, Kanban, scrumban, tickets with predefined checkins... all can work. "Formal scrum" only exists to sell books, certs, classes; but more importantly to give justification or a…

I would suggest joining a very small startup that will let you learn/observe from watching others tackle those challenges. There is a a lot to learn and it can shift greatly as a c…

I see it this way: As a manager you are responsible for your department those responsibilities dont magically poof away because your on vacation. If you have successfully set up yo…

I have been in the startup world for like 13 years, and have been everything from an IC up to CTO. This is IMHO: > a) has Hacker News/YC ever seen a startup fail because the codeba…

So they need a set bushiness and tech teams to build an internal ad stack, and try to get advertisers... many who wont buy in without 3rd party tracking to mitigate fraud.

I perfer async standup over slack. - It makes it easier to parse information, reread, and catch things like hey 2 people are working on the same thing. - Helps catch people stuck/a…

I keep seeing things like this, people hating on the delivery companies. Customers moving to takeout and restaurants moving to self delivery. Its pushed me to have my quaranteen/la…

Redux always had to much boilerplate for me to prefer it. The last couple years I have been using the new Context API and spliting my app state out by creating a global context, an…

I dont know if it was because of wework but I interviewed some od rgw top engineering leaders at meetup for replacing leadership roles at a startup I was consulting for. I gained a…

The deadlines for state taxes still remain.

Any JavaScript/React or Scala engineers in NYC (and some remote opportunities). Looking for a job my company dv01 has a lot of open roles. Currently doing interviews over hangouts.…

Thanks for the insights. Personally as a manager I give as much autonomy as I can trust a person. If you ass kick and get shit done the last think I want to do is hinder you. In te…

I'll admit as I moved into managmemt js has also improved. These prototypes are tossaways so it's just faster for me.to grab jquert. (Btw I love react and use it in any serious pro…

I've been in the startup world going on 13 years with about 8+ of them in a lead,manager,director,BP, and even cto capacity. Lead teams as small as 3 and as big as 30. So I'm curio…

I once interviewed at wework for an engineering manager position....the projects they were working on were.... asinine... I couldnt nearly keep a stright face on what I felt they w…

Honestly php seems like the common cold... an annoyance that is everywhere and treated with little seriousness. However every evolution it gets better and stronger and adapts other…

I would NOT recommend using a 3rd party auth platform unless its opensource or able to self run (fusionauth). I nearly never regret buy over build but I picked auth0 at a startup a…

If it's possible to prototype or test a potential new product or feature with little to no engineering effort... that is the only responsible thing to do. I've seen many cases wher…