PinnedTech Lead Handbook — Decision MakingAre you trying to make a perfect decision or no decision? The What How do you make quick and great decisions on the daily delivery process? Push the decision-making to the possible lowest level.Tech Lead2 min read
2 days agoTech Lead Handbook — Pair ProgrammingWhy pair programming? What should we use it for, and when should we not? The What What is pairing programming really for? Pair programming to exchange knowledge among people The main goal of pair programming is knowledge sharing — an activity through which knowledge is exchanged among people. Pair programming to the…Software Development2 min read
May 8A Curated List of Short Posts About System DesignFrom Alex Xu — the author of System Design Interview — An Insider’s Guide I’ve been following Alex Xu on LinkedIn for a couple of months now. …System Design Interview2 min read
Apr 25My minimalist shell setup — Bash in Terminal and Zsh in iTerm2The key is having 2 pairs of separate shell environments running independently — the fancy Zsh/iTerm2 setup as my primary shell environment, and Bash/Terminal as a stable fallback environment The Terminal Application Popular terminal applications on MacOS are: Terminal (MacOS built in) iTerm2 (most popular and my goto, written in Objective-C ) Hyper…Iterm 23 min read
Apr 16The Focus Shift from Individual Contributor to Engineering ManagerGitHub Contributions page tells the story of the transition from IC to EM My journey from an Individual Contributor to a Tech Lead / Team Lead / Engineering Manager on a small team (less than 10 developers). I am trying to answer a question about how much code an Engineer…Engineering Manager4 min read
Apr 1Tech Lead Handbook — Consensus vs ConsentEveryone says yes? No one says no? When you come up with a situation, which strategy you should use and when? The What Consensus: everyone says yes. It is transparent and collaborative, but slow. You might need to do Nemawashi to get the border consensus. …Tech Lead3 min read
Mar 22Why Developers Should Always Do Post-Release VerificationHow is the code being shipped? Usually, the code is being created, changed, tested, deployed, and verified in 4 different spaces. Let’s clarify one thing, our goal is to deliver customer value. That’s the assumption I made. If you don’t agree with the statement, you should ignore the entire article. Localhost …Tech Lead3 min read
Feb 23What Ugly Pull Requests Look LikeThings that need to be avoided for a better dev experience There are tons of best practices for PRs are out there for reference, like Write a good pull request, The unwritten guide to pull requests, etc. This makes me curious about what ugly pull requests look like. Let’s dive…Pull Request Reviews2 min read
Jan 26Short Polling vs Long Polling vs StreamingA non-technical explanation for your Mom Imagine you ordered some food online. You want to check the delivery status. You have 3 strategies to do that. 1. Be annoying – Short Polling You can keep asking the same question over and over again. Food Delivery replies with the latest status every single time. …Software Architecture2 min read
Jan 20Things We Don’t Do in Our TeamThe beauty of working in a small and high-performance team We don’t have long-lived branches other than master The master branch is the single source of truth. It is always on, always green, always testable, always measurable, always deployable. We don’t assign developers to repositories Instead, we encourage every developer to contribute to every repository. Developers are more than welcome to stretch themselves to…Engineering Practices3 min read
