As an engineering manager, you know that your role is about more than just managing people and projects. It’s about creating a positive and supportive work environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and collaboration. That’s where the power of servant leadership comes in. Servant leadership is […]
For over a year or so since the launch of ChatGPT, we have seen many people’s work and lives disrupted for better or worse. As an interviewer myself, I have encountered many cases where candidates bluntly copy and paste GPT answers. Too obvious, the tone […]
In engineering, we often hear about observability. Unfortunately in the market, it’s kind of a word that every company that sells observability tools sort of has their definition for, and it can be a little bit confusing. In this article, I gonna borrow insights from this podcast on Observability for Large Language Models. And unpack the […]
As engineers, we all strive to build performant software. But how do we quantify performance? Enter Big O Notation, a mathematical concept that helps us analyze how an algorithm’s execution time scales with the size of its input. It’s not just about bragging about the fastest code; […]
In the quest to leverage ith web hosting that I have already been using for this blog, I wanted to develop and self-host (cheaply) with what I already have. I started to learn Laravel. I think anyone familiar with Laraval knows how much of a […]
If you’re into tech, I strongly encourage you to follow this channel @ALifeEngineered. I love the way how he unpacks his career journey into bite-size advice for people to follow. Most importantly, the philosophy and principles he shares are so relevant to what I am […]
Working through the company ladder is like walking up the pyramid. The higher you get the lesser the opportunity. Or is it? Nevertheless, I am just taking this chance to jot down and reflect on an interesting podcast I heard as I was doing one […]
As a manager, our roles mainly involves people and process. One of my latest improvement work is about process improvement around Internal Developer Platform (IDP). As a Platform squad product managers, just want to share my thoughts about this topic. Mainly about how much of […]
As I reflect on the year, one of the final few one-on-one sessions I had with a couple of senior engineers delved into the concept of shaping your own job scope. Yes, you heard that correctly. But before you go revamping your entire job description, […]
Building processes and systems are part and parcel of the engineering. This is where we transfer manual steps into a documented code and script. This allows us to automate work and just make us be more lazy. Just kidding, is for us to scale our […]
