Pros Performance Company keeps adding more monitoring. Your MacBook will only get slower. You will get annoyed by this. Mike Zorn's comment about this post Apple is finding more ways to restrict access to surveillance. This forces companies to restrict access to tools further because they lack the visibility into things. You pay the price… Often developers get even restricted from using tools like Charles Proxy / Proxyman, because they require adding a new root certificate which then interfere with company’s monitoring tools....

This post is based on my personal experience and is a bit oversimplified for brevity. Update: Added some of the feedback that I got from some readers. Is Software Engineering Still the Golden Ticket? What About Medicine… or Trades? A few years ago, if you asked anyone, “What should I study to make good money?” the answer was almost always: programming. Fast forward to today, and the answer isn’t so clear-cut....

Learning from my product peers, TIL if you’re making an impactful change, it’s not just about the change itself—it’s about how you communicate its success. A compelling story can amplify your impact, but every great story needs a foundation of data to back it up. Logs, metrics, and dashboards are essential tools that help you visualize, quantify the problem and measure the impact of your solution from the perspectives of:...

If you’re ahead of others, you become people’s go to person. It means more involvement. More challenge and opportunities to grow and network. Being first means you can pave the way for others and be helpful. It’s one of the key traits of a lead. Main Advantages of being first You can set the tone, guidelines that you want others to follow. And not you following others. Often you’re late into some bad architecture....