Tech Organization Resources

A collection of helpful blog posts, articles, and podcasts as it relates to programming and working in a tech organization.

Organization Structure & Culture

• The Tyranny of Structurelessness
• Better coordination, or better software?: Don’t unify tracking tools. Don’t make coordination smoother. Make delivery smoother! by strengthening boundaries.
• The Old Guard
• How Stripe Built a Writing Culture
• Delay Giving Job Titles
• No Hello: faster slack communication by sending complete first messages instead of distinct "hello" introductary messages
• Slime Mold: Bottom up organizations are analogous to slime mold and iterative decoupling to maintain smaller autonomous team loosely convering towards the same north star is necessary than attempting to have a big, bottoms-up org function effectively
• The Maze in the Mouse: 2023 view on the failures of Google culture and organization to ship
• Why Did I Leave Google, or Stay So Long: 2021 view on the impossible to overcome challenges of building within a bureaucracy after a startup acquisition
• Internal Communications Leaked in Subpoenas

Career Growth

• StaffEng Archetypes
• Engineering Manager Archetypes
• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
• 10x (engineer, context) pairs
• Managing Upwards

Coding Velocity

• danluu/product-velocity
• Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
• Library Writing Realizations

1 on 1s

• 7 Essential Tips for Effective 1 on 1 Meetings with Your Manager
• Questions for our first 1:1
• Hall of Fame Guidance: One on Ones
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

Fun

• Microservices
• The Hustle
• Senior Engineer
• If American Psycho were about Programmers
• Designing an Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenes

Technical Opinions

• Protobuffers Are Wrong
• Data denormalization is broken
• Your Calendrical Fallacy Is...
• Downsides of Vitess Sharded MySQL DB
• Handling time with supersecond resolution
• Failed #SquadGoals: Spotify doesn't use the Spotify Agile Model and neither should you
• Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way
• The 12 Factor App
• A Depenedency Injector's 3 Jobs
• Comements should be sentences
• Breaking changes (semvar or not) suck

DevOps

• Flux: the GitOps family of projects for Kubernetes
• Atlantis: Terraform Pull Request Automation
• Crossplane
• Telepresence

Quotes

• "Less code is better code, therfore no code is the best code" – Wil Shipley