In the fast-paced world of online marketplaces, product analytics plays a crucial role in understanding user behavior, optimizing the user experience, and driving business success. Good Dog, a leading double-sided marketplace connecting responsible breeders with potential dog owners, recognized the significance of robust product analytics. As the team responsible for…

In the world of hypergrowth technology startups, effective engineering leadership is a critical factor in driving success. “An Elegant Puzzle,” written by Will Larson, offers invaluable insights and guidance on the journey towards becoming an exceptional engineering leader and manager. Drawing from his own experiences at hypergrowth startups such as…

Nurturing Agility Through Practice Turning Agile Principles into Action Contrasting Agile with Waterfall, Agile principles emphasize iterative feedback and the maximization of work not done. By continuously seeking feedback and iterating throughout the development process, Agile teams can avoid wasting effort on unnecessary features and ensure that they are delivering the most valuable outcomes. The practice of mobbing, for…

When it comes to solving complex problems, seeking diverse perspectives and working as a team is often the best approach. Take, for example, a liver transplant where a team of liver surgeons, physicians, specialists, and nurses work together to ensure the success of the procedure. Or, a marching band practicing…

To achieve high-performance, effective cross-functional collaboration and communication are paramount as a team. While Jira has been a popular choose for managing projects, Discovery Trees are emerging as a superior alternative. Discovery Trees simplify how teams breakdown, track, and communicate change in status, priority, assignment, dependency, and scope all in…

You can save money on your monthly AWS ECR bill by adding a Lifecycle Policy to your repositories. A policy is made up of rules which tell AWS which images in your repository are safe to delete, referred to as expiring an image in the AWS documentation. AWS only charges…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Fargate is a serverless solution to container orchestration. But to get from “Hello localhost” to “Hello world” there are many networking and infrastructure hoops to jump through. Terraform makes setting up and deploying Docker images to AWS ECS repeatable, but https://serverless.tf/ makes it easy. Step 1: Create an Application We want…

Secure secrets as code with SOPS lets developers commit secrets safely to public or private GitHub repos. Akin to infrastructure as code which makes spinning up and managing server infrastructure consistent between developers. SOPS makes sharing and managing secrets consistent between developers. How does SOPS work? SOPS works by encrypting files through key-as-a-service (KaaS)…

Managing secrets between development, production, and other environments slows down software engineering teams. Historically, to onboard into a new engineer into a new code base required that engineer to copy a peer’s .env file and then manually keep that .env file in sync with any future changes. …