When I started my company, it was very obvious that we were going with a microservice architecture from the get go. Even though we were just two people, it seemed like the right choice. Different pieces of your business have their own different rhythms af…
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Rewarding problem solving creates a paradox. Imagine two different teams. One team, let’s call it Team A, is not very dynamic. The team members are content, they do solid work every day, and work well together. They end their days after 8h of work or less…
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Many people in tech look up to Silicon Valley startups, treating their practices and habits as some sort of recipe for success. It stems from fundamental lack of knowledge of how SV startups are run and for what purpose.
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Whenever the topic of protecting developer machines comes up, I find myself dismantling the same fallacies over and over again. One of those fallacies goes like this: we must protect our source code! So far so good. Protecting your source code makes sense…
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There is a very common misunderstanding in tech that I keep running into. Many people believe that a person hired by their company who has “security” in their title is there to ensure that your software and operations are secure. It’s especially heartbrea…
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