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Startups engineers often make a false dichotomy between moving fast and writing clean code, taking on unnecessary tech debt. Improving skills and good leadership can manage tech debt and keep code maintainable.

Startups can often find themselves firefighting due to technical debt. Here are 4 steps to start pulling your company to a more proactive state.

Too often quality focuses on reducing bugs or crashes. This leads to a focus on avoiding errors. Instead, seek to create a culture and organization that is focused on achieving excellence.

Quality in products requires more than test coverage; engineers benefit from a deep understanding of the problem domain and user personas.

A good resume can help you get noticed by a hiring manager. Here are a few tips that might help you improve your resume.

Our productivity is often limited by how quickly and effectively we can get better at figuring out what’s going on and moving to a solution. Some suggestions on things to study and how to study them.

Sooner or later, every technology organization faces a necessary evil—migrations. Make yours go smoothly by understanding the old system well, engaging with all of your stakeholders early, tracking behavioral differences, and being ready to iterate.

You can’t learn everything on the job. Lead for the team. Overcommunicate. Lean on people smarter than you.

How do we train professional musicians compared to software engineers? Musicians develop an ability to relate theory and history to practice; we should do more in computer science.

Some thoughts on how to ensure systems research is reproducible by sharing code.