If you are constantly overwhelmed and too busy - something somewhere somehow is wrong. I wrote about my journey from an overwhelmed, feisty, flustered newbie to an equanimous, calm, collected professional with arguably more impact.
This blog presents leadership methodologies for high-impact outcomes. Each post typically describes a challenge, hard-learned lessons, and the reusable framework to use.
Areas include building high-performing teams, setting direction, creating an engineering culture, identifying high-leverage interventions, and more. It aims to help engineering leaders accelerate their growth while supporting their teams to reach their highest potential.
One of my favorite technical projects involved overcoming a network constraint. The virtual machines (VMs) hosting the core services kept exhausting available ports. Once all ports were used up, new connections would fail, tanking our availability and reliability. Read on to learn how we overcame this issue and opened up opportunities to reduce costs by a third.
Leading an underfunded team is a challenge most managers will face over their careers. This blog post provides techniques and a framework for delivering impact under such conditions.
Exactly! I found their description a bit inaccurate too. I am yet to see a true service offering on other platforms like service fabric. [Disclaimer: I work at MSFT]