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Building While Defining theProblem
Product teams experiment. Most engineering teams still wait for the answer. Closing that gap means using code as a discovery tool.
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Hiring Your First Engineers When You Are the EngineeringTeam
Hiring your first engineers as a solo technical leader is nothing like hiring at scale. No panels, no second opinion, every hire defines the culture.
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You Don't Need Microservices Yet: Event-Driven Architecture Inside YourMonolith
Event-driven architecture is a design pattern. Microservices is a deployment topology. You can get decoupling without paying for distribution.
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Most Founding Engineer Job Descriptions Describe the WrongRole
The founding engineer role is three concurrent jobs. Writing code is maybe a third of what determines success. Here is what the rest looks like.
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The Case for a Boring, Repeatable Stack Across MultipleProducts
Running multiple SaaS products on one boring stack keeps you shipping instead of paying the novelty tax on every new project.
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Inheriting a Mess: The Technical TurnaroundStrategy
A pragmatic 90-day framework for assessing reality, choosing the right battles, and restoring delivery momentum when you inherit a fragile system.
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How I Make Technical Decisions When There's NoData
At early stage, most technical decisions happen before you have the data. The framework that matters is not how to be right. It is how to be wrong cheaply.
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