Utah · Engineering leadership

Twenty years of shipping, mostly in public.

I lead engineering at a regional media and marketplace company. This site is an archive going back to 2007 — PHP and MySQL in the early years, scaling and team-building later, and whatever production surprised me with in between.

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2020 · 03 · 03 Snippit: Mature microservices and how to operate them I’m cleaning house in my notes and to-dos, found this gem and wanting to save it for later. A great slidedeck on running a Microservice … 2020 · 03 · 03 Snippit: Innovation Isn’t All Fun and Games — Creativity Needs Discipline But despite the fact that innovative cultures are desirable and that most leaders claim to understand what they entail, they are hard to create and … 2019 · 07 · 27 Snippet: Big Launch Motto Tweet from Michael Lopp, VP of Engineering at Slack: https://twitter.com/rands/status/1150875557761966080 What’s cool is I’m pretty sure … 2019 · 06 · 10 Director's First Rule: My Desired Outcome is... Last year I wrote about my first rule for managers: the phrase “My expectation is…” Feel free to read it, but in summary, it’s my … 2019 · 03 · 29 New Meetup: Engineering Leadership Utah I’ve had a few people reach out to me asking about my new Meetup, so the cat is out of the bag: I’m starting an engineering leadership …
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