/Ted Neward

An Engineering Manager Challenge tl;dr: Ted shares his answer to the following interview question: "You're the tech lead and your team is getting stretched thin. You decide to add resources but you can afford 1 senior full-stack developer or 2 junior full-stack devs. Which do you choose and why?" 

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Manager Antipatterns tl;dr: “There's a whole host of mistakes that companies often fall prey to with respect to those they have leading teams, and I thought it a good idea to collect them into one place, under the umbrella heading of "manager antipatterns”.”

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Manager Antipatterns tl;dr: “There's a whole host of mistakes that companies often fall prey to with respect to those they have leading teams, and I thought it a good idea to collect them into one place, under the umbrella heading of "manager antipatterns”.”

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An Engineering Manager Challenge tl;dr: Ted shares his answer to the following interview question: "You're the tech lead and your team is getting stretched thin. You decide to add resources but you can afford 1 senior full-stack developer or 2 junior full-stack devs. Which do you choose and why?" 

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An Engineering Manager Challenge tl;dr: Ted shares his answer to the following interview question: "You're the tech lead and your team is getting stretched thin. You decide to add resources but you can afford 1 senior full-stack developer or 2 junior full-stack devs. Which do you choose and why?" 

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2024 Tech Predictions tl;dr: I'm including a probability score with each one, in much the same way intelligence officials do in their assessment reports, to give you a sense of how confident I am in the prediction: (1) Hiring will open up. (2) WebAssembly will gain more traction. (3) Generative AI will lose its luster. (4) We will begin to disambiguate between generative AI and large language models. (5) Custom AI models will begin to gain traction. (6) New and interesting languages will begin to make waves. (7) Cracks in the "full-stack developer" facade will grow. (8) AR/VR will start showing glimmers of life. And more.

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You Want Modules, Not Microservices tl;dr: Ted dissecting the concept of a microservice to “get to the real root of what's going on” arguing there's a mis-match between its promise and what it actually delivers.

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