adrw // Andrew Alexander

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

Career Growth

• StaffEng Archetypes
• Engineering Manager Archetypes
• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Coding Velocity

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

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

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

DevOps

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