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The limits of individual contribution as an engineering leader When your engineering organization grows, the way you lead must evolve. When I managed a few teams, I relied on being close to the work: attending daily stand-ups, reviewing specifications, monitoring alert channels, scheduling post-mortems, and facilitating retrospectives. If something was […]
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Even small companies have data Data can be a great asset for product-oriented companies, especially in Tech: it brings a bit of factual input in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. A few companies understood this early on such as Facebook, Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn, a bit more than […]
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My team had to build a new Django, data-intensive service with CockroachDB. After a few months of developments and having the service in production for a while, I wanted to share a few feedbacks and discoveries we made along the road.
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This article presents some go-to guidelines I use when designing database tables.
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SaaS enables data-oriented companies I don’t know any fellow Tech workers that never heard about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): a large majority of us work in companies that either sell SaaS, either considering moving from traditional software to SaaS. While some implications are often well understood, such as recurring revenues, getting the […]
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