"Incident response isn’t just about technology and tools, though these are beneficial; it’s also about open and blameless communication"By Fundamentals of Data Engineering
"In earlier roles, you may have tried to influence decisions towards technology choices you were motivated by; in senior positions, you’re accountable to the business and organization first and yourself second."Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
"In more senior roles, you’re often in the right place to provide input when it’s relatively cheap to incorporate, where otherwise your feedback might not be incorporated–despite being very valuable–because the related roll out or implementation has advanced too far."Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
"Instead of being completely DRY, test code should often strive to be DAMP—that is, to promote “Descriptive And Meaningful Phrases.” A little bit of duplication is OK in tests so long as that duplication makes the test simpler and clearer."Software Engineering at Google
"it can be overwhelming to track too many things, and tracking less important things can distract you from tracking what is really important."By Designing Machine Learning Systems