Favorite Quotes

"You’re far more likely to change your company’s long-term trajectory by growing the engineers around you than through personal heroics."Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track

"You’re working as part of a team, not a collection of competing individuals. Don’t become a single point of failure where the team can’t get anything done when you’re not available. It’s not sustainable. It hides problems."—The Staff Engineer's Path

"You’re working as part of a team, not a collection of competing individuals. Don’t become a single point of failure where the team can’t get anything done when you’re not available. It’s not sustainable. It hides problems."—The Staff Engineer's Path

"[about latency] Higher percentiles are important to look at because even though they account for a small percentage of your users, sometimes they can be the most important users"By Designing Machine Learning Systems

"[about metrics] If it moves, we track it."etsy.com/codeascraft/measure-anything-measure-everything/