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What comes to mind when you hear the words "career development for managers"?If you're like me, it's one of two things: either obsessive ladder-climbing or those awful mandatory "trainings" that

An interview is not a game of skill, except insofar as your skills may (may!) be what got you in the door.It's psychologically healthier and arguably more realistic to treat

So I'm walking home, irritated and weary, trying to summon the energy to compose another thread explaining "Why Prometheus Is Not An Observability Tool",or maybe "How To Tell If Your

storytime. so, one of my last social outings (Feb) was a bunch of women in tech, out for drinks, telling war stories. at some point one says, a little sheepishly:"i'm

Updated definition: Monitoring is for running and understanding other people's code (aka "your infrastructure") Observability is for running and understanding *your* code -- the code you write, change and ship

Hold up, translating..."I work for established, mature companies where it doesn't make sense to put in the work it would take to let developers own their own services in production,

That reminds me ... about a year ago we posted our first open job rec. Here are some things I have observed since then.1) There is a huge, underserved pool

I keep talking to engineers who are antsy to get to senior and beyond, frustrated that it is taking so long. And I've encountered one very, very widespread blind spot

alright, i want to say a few words about a topic i am extremely not an expert in: celebrity gossip. namely, Ellen.ALL the caveats apply. abuse and harassment are never

I somehow belong to a FB group for "Tech Ladies"(sic). I don't login often, but every time I do I see someone fretting over whether to quit her job.It generally

i don't think i've mentioned this, but i was diagnosed with ADHD this year. this was a complete surprise, the possibility had never even entered my mind. i thought the

People overestimate how much of the speed at which they ship software is a function of their own abilities, and radically underestimate how much is set by the systems they