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For the past year, I’ve been leading the development of Maglev, a complete rewrite of the OneBusAway server. The original system was built in Java over a decade ago, and while it still works, it’s showing its age. Maglev is a greenfield project in...
Once, I was leading engineering on a product caught in multiple overlapping crises. Our biggest customer was breaking the database simply through their size and usage patterns. Other customers threatened to churn unless we could provide new featur...
I worked on a project once where leadership celebrated every feature shipped, every deadline met, every sprint completed on schedule. The team was moving fast. Blazingly fast, by some measures. Every standup had good news. Every demo impressed sta...
I spent the last few evenings polishing the trip planner feature that an intern built for the OneBusAway iOS app. Not reviewing the code, not providing architectural guidance, but actually writing Swift to handle edge cases in the UI and fixing la...
From David Plouffe in The Audacity to Win: There have been plenty of organizations that thrive, for a time at least, under leaders who yell and scream and fly off the handle and are propelled forward by a culture of intimidation and even fear. Bu...
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