Essential Manager Meetings: Three Month Catch Up
One of the key meetings that I’ve done throughout my career with new hires or folks new to their role, is the “Three Month Catch Up”. This meeting provides ...
One of the key meetings that I’ve done throughout my career with new hires or folks new to their role, is the “Three Month Catch Up”. This meeting provides ...
Last spring, on every other Wednesday for two months, I volunteered at Pursuit to conduct technical interviews for engineering fellows.
So yeah, I always forget how to update my gems when I need to. I am not familiar with Ruby and only use it to power my blog. Two issues often occur: Gems...
Leaders are readers and with that in mind, I push myself to read as often as I can. Recently, in preparation for my new management role at Dropbox, I read “T...
A standard interview question that I have encountered multiple times in my engineering journey is the classic “remove duplicates from an array” problem. This...
I do not typically write about my personal life, but a new year calls for new traditions.
Refactoring (2nd Edition) by Martin Fowler is one the best programming books I have read. Full stop. I have utilized this book to train and coach developers ...
When I first started managing, I had no idea what meetings I was supposed to conduct with my staff to help them grow. In part because I was at a smaller org...
When provisioning and decommissioning Amazon servers in the cloud, we can use the console or we can use code. We’re programmers, right? Well let’s follow Dev...
In order to launch an Amazon EC2 instance, we need both the AMI to use and the subnet we want to launch the instance into. In this article we will use Node.j...