Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Instead, your first team becomes those other engineering managers, directors, VPs, whatever it is, those peers, those all-important peer relationships that are so, so vital to cross-team, cross-silo and cross-departmental work. He was the software engineering manager. Show Notes.

Training 40

Training Programming Groups Engineering Management 40

Honeycomb

APRIL 13, 2022

I swing wildly on the engineer/manager chandelier pendulum and part of my work involves architecting high-scale systems that can handle spiky loads. Do we have to stress about operating systems and security patches and maintenance with EC2 servers if we want the best performance, or are serverless containers fast enough?

AWS 52

AWS Linux Windows Azure 52

Stacks on Stacks

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In our case, it involved checking our system against a set of rules like this one for Windows VMs and this one for Linux. Every engineering manager should have a ratio in their head of work hours spent in their organization on software engineering vs other related tasks (ops, QA, product management, etc…).

Infrastructure 40

Infrastructure Lambda Serverless Software Engineering 40

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Will’s book, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. Marcus: Will, you are a manager now. You have been an engineer, you’ve got a marvelous book out called An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management. When you were little, did you want to be a manager? November 4-7, 2019.

Weak Development Team 40

Weak Development Team Software Review Architecture Training 40