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As a Staff and higher engineer you may be paid on the level of EM or Director. So switching the career track as an engineer beyond senior in most cases will not lead to salary incr…

Can you share any example of non-fiction literature with beauty and humanity? Thanks!

Have you tried autoimmune protocol diet? Anecdotally, but it may help.

I was lucky to have a few friends sharing my passion for metal. Anyway there were quite a lot of magazines about metal music. They really helped me to discover new styles, bands, a…

If you have motivation and time, find a niche, a project you are interested to dig into. Spend a month on learning about it, write some code. Then contact OSS contributors working …

Did you roll out your own implementation of Outbox pattern? It is an important pattern to address potential data inconsistencies, but I did not see yet a good scalable implementati…

There is quite a recent trend to introduce internal Platform, Dev Tools, or Data Platform teams. I would like to learn more about different approaches of organising Product managem…

Apart from the patterns that are obviously good or bad by definition, most of the patterns and architecture decisions have their pros and cons, and the focus is on understanding, d…

What sources for learning do you use?

It is true for Copenhagen, but I wonder how it feels to families living in rural areas.

I think it is a matter of culture. I personally would prefer a straightforward approach, and I think many of my German colleagues, but I think my British colleagues would prefer th…

In Germany we have probation period of 6 months that helps both sides to decide if they want to continue employment. Can you please explain the causation between easiness of firing…

I recently got a feedback in my interview process that I should be more structured and clear in communications, particularly on the topics that are broad and complex like approachi…

My grandpa worked as an engineer at one of the freezer-warehouses where they also produced ice-cream. It was end of 80s - mid 90s in USSR. He brought a lot of it home, and my fridg…

How do you find them?

Very interesting to learn a bit about Berlin’s culture scene. Do you write in German or English?

German language. I live in Germany for quite a while, but only recently decided to invest in the language properly. Now I am about B2. My goal is at least to get to the level where…

There is a good short story “Progeny” by Philip Dick about AI raising human children ;)

They probably mixed target and launch coordinates when they programmed the missiles.

>> Do you think it's practically possible to learn everything without any structure, discipline? You can learn something superficial without any structure and discipline, but struc…

I'm quite experienced in backend engineering, but recently I found myself interested in more CS-heavy topics, particularly compilers and query engines. I am reading and doing "Writ…

A few months ago I had a pleasant technical interview with Snowflake. First, the interviewer was very supportive and cooperative, it felt almost like a friendly talk between two co…

I read the advice you quoted in Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb.

“Deutschland” historically meant “the territory where German-speaking people live”, not a country. The name comes from early Middle Ages when the concept of a national country was …