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The CTO Journey: Mark Porter Of MongoDB
- Mark Porter tl;dr: Q&A, including what traits, skills, and habits should an engineering team focus on: (1) Conway's Law: make sure your org and code are structured to represent the product you want to delight customers with. (2) Dunbar's Law: humans can maintain a certain number of social connections, so keep teams & interactions within this number. (3) Have small groups where they know what they’re doing, are allowed to make decisions about it, and have a connection to the customer.featured in #277
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VPE and CTO - The First 90 Days
- James Turnbull tl;dr: Map of the areas in a company every technical leader should look at - company, product, technical and humans. Also "a roadmap for thinking about future requirements as you grow and scale."featured in #197
Looking Back On Four Years At The Times
- Nick Rockwell tl;dr: Looking back at his time as the CTO of the NY Times, Nick shares what he learnt. Including how to evaluate technology, best practices on product growth, fixing data infrastructure, and more. Click on the link in this tweet to bypass the paywall.featured in #181
How GitHub’s CTO Architects Engineering Teams That Scale
- Jason Warner tl;dr: Software distribution is based on a social network, and it works well. It's a system of checks and balances refined over time. As engineers we perceive it to be slow, which is not always the case. There is a stark difference in quality between managed (Linux, Debian) and unmanaged (Chrome Extensions, PyPi) distribution.featured in #165
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