(Read Part 1.)

Growth is straightforward: are people buying what we are selling?

Following the convention set in Part 1, we will be using product units. Depending on your context, a “product unit” can be a subscription, a license, a ride, a loan, a card, a night’s stay, 1m page…

Or “Finance Wants You to Give a Forecast and What You Can Do About It.”

A guide for engineering directors, the occasional engineering manager, and the rare software engineer.

Introduction

Congratulations! If you are reading this guide, you probably work for a company that has found product-market fit and is starting…

I have been building a security engineering team for the past 9 months. Here are a few things I learned.

It is going to be challenging.

First, let us acknowledge that security recruiting is hard. It is very very hard, and is possibly the hardest kind of engineering recruiting out there. When I realized that I…

Having worked in a few startups that hired rapidly, I have noticed that there is always this first moment when someone would exclaim that some department can no longer fit in the largest conference room. …

When I first dipped my toes into management, my company and I worked out an arrangement where I was effectively both a tech lead and a manager. (This is also known as a “TLM”). It was a great way to transition myself into a new management role. In hindsight, I…

Co-author: Anuj Desai

Anuj and I have had the privilege of working with several teams on their roadmaps and sprint plans over the last few years, and we noticed that it is not always obvious what a healthy backlog should look like, or how it can be maintained. …

Promotions and compensation adjustments are some of the most important functions of management. By electing to recognize (or not recognize) individuals and their contributions, we construct a system of incentives that encourage and reward certain behaviors. …

This is a short explainer of event-driven servers, intended to help readers gain an intuitive understanding of event loops. It could be useful when:

• deciding between different MPMs for Apache HTTP Server
• comparing Apache HTTP Server and NGINX
• choosing concurrency models for gunicorn
• troubleshooting an event loop

Concurrent Servers

In the classic…