Favorite Quotes

"There is some expectation that you will write and review design documentation. That’s because it’s very difficult to have many people achieve something together without shared understanding, and it’s hard to be sure you have that shared understanding without a written plan."—The Staff Engineer's Path

"The risks you take to increase delivery speed by reducing test coverage must always be counteracted with useful alerts, automated recovery from failure, and effective debugging of root causes."Serverless Development on AWS

"the royal road to a person’s heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most."How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated For the Next Generation of Leaders

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."Mark Twain

"The separation of architectural effort from implementation is a very powerful way of getting conceptual integrity on very large projects."By Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition