Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing - aka RFCs
I have recently been talking at small and mid-size companies, sharing engineering best practices I see us use at Uber, which I would recommend any tech »
Efficient Software Project Management at its Roots
After a decade of shipping software projects in various environments, I have started to notice patterns on projects that are more successful than others. The most »
Distributed architecture concepts I learned while building a large payments system
I joined Uber two years ago as a mobile software engineer with some backend experience. I ended up building the payments functionality in the app - »
Seven things that helped me move into engineering management
I have moved from being a tech lead to engineering manager close to a year ago. I wanted to share some of the things that over »
Things I've learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager
A couple of months ago I moved from a senior engineer position to being an engineering manager on a medium sized team. I've found this role »
Transitioning From Objective C to Swift in 4 Steps - Without Rewriting The Existing Code
We started developing Skyscanner TravelPro in Objective C in March 2015. A couple of months later, when Swift 2.0 was released, we started to slowly »
My Code Ended Up Running an Oil Rig. These are the 5 Things I Learned.
In 2010 I built one of the most advanced charting libraries available for Windows, Visiblox [1]. Originally I was pretty convinced it would mostly be finance »
What Agile Really Means
Nowadays almost every software development company and team claims to be agile and usually follows some kind of agile methodology. However in the middle of the »
Extending the Ghost Default Theme with a Sidebar, Social Navigation Links, Disqus Comments & a Contact Form
The blogging platform I chose for my blog is the open source Ghost blogging platform. The main reasons I decided to go with it was it's »
A Comment Is An Invitation For Refactoring
Uncle Bob Martin has a pretty strict view on comments. He goes as far to say: A comment is an apology for not choosing a more »