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Shopify’s director of production engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things

During the boom times, I launched a start-up so I could become rich. Years later, I’m still looking for my exit.

When your boss loves you, you have options. Here's how to help your manager get what they need, so you get what you want.

I’ve seen so many senior engineers struggle with these skills during technical interviews related to system design, whiteboarding and practical coding. Master these to standout!

A quote from NVIDIA’s Huang in a recent interview: You want to position yourself near opportunities. You don’t have to be that perfect. You want to position yourself near the tree. Even if you don’t catch the apple before it hits the ground, so long as you’re the first one to pick it up. You want to position yourself close to the opportunities. That’s kind of a lot of my work, is positioning the company near opportunities, and the company having the skills to monetize each one of the steps alo

I remember back when being on one of those gigantic, long-lived software projects when I was a wee programmer. Professional project managers had laid out the entire thing before we started coding. Enlightened professional project managers—they only assumed 4.2 hours of coding per programmer per day.

Read inspiring interviews with successful self-taught developers and bootcamp grads. Find your Junior Software Engineer job with our job board.

Instead of niching yourself into a prison, find the questions that bring you alive, and live them.

Site Reliability Engineering, incident management, learning, lessons learned, SRE

Research from Google and others sheds light on the easiest path to cutting cycle time.

Programming lessons I’ve learnt over the last 7 years.

The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign. In this usage, it referred to those Americans who did

Reading the docs straight through, like a book, can provide outsized benefits for your career.

This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Tes...

The most common human-related challenges that teams face.

I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets...

Unsure of what a word means and how it applies to UX in-practice? Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and Agile concepts.

Design Manager Sara Culver takes us through evolving the team's product design and writing career levels.

Learn how career ladders work and how to use a career plan to climb the ladder

When seeking tech advice, consider survivorship bias and the ever-changing job market. What worked in the past may not work today, and different factors like experience, location, and education background can impact opportunities. Seek guidance that aligns with your specific situation, connect with others, and embrace adaptability to find success on your own terms.

and how AI can help

A new set of principles for better workflows when making digital products

If you have the itch to found a company, start a business, not a startup. You'll earn more money and enjoy the experience more.

At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, and now face jail time. A reminder why it’s never a good idea to go along with such requests.

The Burnout Playbook for software engineers

Our 10 person startup gets acquired by Google, we rebuild our product the Google way, and begin to understand that amazing things are possible at Google, if you play the Google game

Designing to scale can be a critical skill to learn in specific fields