The Engineering Manager

Panic, panic! It’s the day before launch. The engineering team look frantic. There are empty takeaway coffee cups across their desks, in the bin, and on the floor. Kelly is slouched over her keyboard looking at her monitor through her fingers. It’s the loading prompt, and it’s still loading, even after three minutes. “This just can’t be possible,” she remarks. “How come we’ve never had any issues with the loading speed until now?” A Slack message from […]

Mining for debt Recently on Slack one of my colleagues shared this comic from Monkey User. I thought it was a great metaphor.  The world of software moves extremely fast. Inside a given company the codebase is constantly changing with the addition of new features. Outside the company is an entire world of open source software development, shipping updates to all of the libraries, frameworks and databases that are being used. With time, piling on […]