The Engineering Manager

My laptop is going out of the window That email. It’s been watching you all day. Lurking. You’ve skirted around it, and you’ve turned your attention to other things: to Slack conversations, to pull requests, and even to writing that API documentation that’s been dangling at the bottom of your to-do list for weeks. But it’s still there. And now you have nothing else to distract you. You open it. A wall of text appears […]

Mnemosyne Recently, we redesigned the main storage architecture of one of our products. We did so by writing a distributed bitmap index of our own that was exactly suited to the type of searches and aggregations that users perform frequently. My colleague, Phil Messenger, who served as the lead engineer on the project, gave a technical talk at Devoxx 2018 about how the system was conceived and designed. While this project was running, and despite […]