The Engineering Manager

Lisa and Ben are standing in the middle of a cavernous empty office. It smells damp. “Well, I guess this could be nice,” says Ben, looking at the peeling corners of the carpet tiles beneath his feet and the adjacent coffee stain that possibly predates Y2K. Lisa looks at the wires hanging from the ceiling. “Before or after we set fire to it?” “C’mon, Lisa. Imagine the possibilities.” Ben makes a wide gesture with his […]

No big bangs When launching a new product or feature, the last thing that you want to do is something risky. The most risky kind of launch is a big bang, where the application or feature: Is shipped to production only as the marketing launch goes out. Is enabled for all users at once. Hasn’t been profiled against real load in production. In order to avoid those kinds of launches, last week we wrote about […]