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Like most engineers, I tend to have a bias towards action. Getting started and building things is what I really enjoy, so naturally, I start a lot of side projects. Over time, I've tried to limit those to specific problems I've had myself, building on Paul
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Compensation of employees can take many forms: Usually, salaries form the basis, with additional benefits added on top. For startups with less liquidity at hand or companies searching for ways to incentivize employees taking ownership and staying for the long term to build and grow the business, there are alternative
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In the era of Software-as-a-Service products, we have seen a transition from interacting through user interfaces to interacting through APIs. Some products are available mainly through such a communication layer, enabling automation, and seamless integration between services. Whether you use Stripe for billing, Shopify for commerce, AWS for a variety
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When you're working on a product that is constantly evolving, adding, deprecating, and deleting features not only has to be communicated with your customers in advance, but often you have to maintain multiple versions. While you should never have to maintain more than a handful of versions of
Product Development
Building products is hard. You have to think about the problem you want to solve, the customer you want to delight, design a product through multiple iterations and improve continuously. In small teams, all hands are on the product, working on anything else can be very expensive in terms of
Product Development
tl;dr: Stop overengineering, think of the first iteration of a feature, build it, ship it, get feedback, and improve it. Building a software product isn't always straightforward. You might have a vision of how you want your product to look like, having thought of well-designed features that
Time management
Time is our most valuable resource. It's strictly limited, and we'll never know how much we've got left until it's too late. Ideally, this means we should strive for making the most of that limited resource, spending our time with our families
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Your life gets so radically better after you ship something - Patrick McKenzie We've all had that one idea that came up when we least expected it, but from that moment on we couldn't think about anything else. Whether it was for a problem we needed
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For millions of people, the past months have radically changed their lives. In my case, one of the most impactful changes was the gradual transition into working fully remotely, or to working from home. I've always cherished the office as a hub to meet my colleagues, communicate and
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When building customer-facing systems, especially in the realm of SaaS businesses, it's important to get a couple design aspects of your system right early on, if you want to plan at scale and grow without unexpected side effects. Scaling out software infrastructure for large customers, especially enterprise clients,
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If you work on a software project, no matter your role, you'll make and a lot of decisions and witness even more being made. Ranging from minor choices between code style A or B to rather impactful ones like where to store data, and why that should be
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Deciding how and when to ship a new feature can be a sensitive topic. Nobody wants to break production and upset customers. And still, deploying to production tens to hundreds of times a day has become common for a lot of companies. In this post, I want to explore how
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In my previous post, I went over the fundamentals of how the Domain Name System, DNS in short, resolves hostnames to IP addresses, and how the Border Gateway Protocol can be utilized to create a globally-distributed infrastructure to reach users around the world without ever switching hostnames. If you'
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Deploying globally-available and distributed applications is tricky and involves a lot of steps. Luckily, we're better off using services already made for this situation, such as serverless platforms or managed DNS with Anycast capabilities. But what does this actually mean and how is today's software deployed
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Too many times I have found myself at a point of developing a side project, where I had lost all the joy I initially felt while coming up with ideas, drafts, designs and potentially even prototypes — just because too much time had passed since the first steps. And that'