Yeray Darias
@ydarias.bsky.social
Software developer ... sometimes I'm like The Wolf, I solve problems (and I bake cookies) 🙂
We see that AI tools amplify good engineering cultures, and bad. So it is rational to better the engineering culture at any and all organizations. Good (engineering) middle management is pretty good at doing this. So why are so many companies gutting middle management, and now?
Nunca son suficientes las veces que se comparta este vídeo. Porque aún queda mucho camino y atravesamos años convulsos. Feliz mes del Orgullo. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Team Topologies excerpt "Trying to fix engineering issues by mandating them from above is doomed to failure, as you really need buy-in from the folks working at he coalface"
We shouldn't try to use AI for everything. We should try to build everything so you don't need AI to use it.
Besides stating the differences between engineering managers and staff engineers, this article is pure gold on pointing antipatterns and different ways to organize your own teams blog.alexewerlof.com/p/staff-engi...
Staff Engineer vs Engineering Manager
When do you need a Staff Engineers? What's the accountability model with or without?
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We’re Doing AI All Wrong. Here’s How to Get It Right | Sasha Luccioni www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl-v...
We’re Doing AI All Wrong. Here’s How to Get It Right | Sasha Luccioni | TED
YouTube video by TED
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"It is impossible to foster a psychologically safe culture if persistent underperformance goes unaddressed." blog.danielna.com/vulnerabilit...
Vulnerability Avoidant
The Tyrant, The Pushover, and the Peter Principle.
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"Management is not a promotion, management is a change of profession. And you will be bad at it for a long time after you start doing it. If you don’t think you’re bad at it, you aren’t doing your job." charity.wtf/2017/05/11/t...
The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thin…
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If you're wondering why January often brings the largest outages - here's a common reason The code freeze is THE time to do all the big refactors that seemed too risky to do the rest of the year. Guess when it ships... all at once 🥶
The Pragmatic Engineer.@pragmaticengineer.com · 8mo agoIt's that time of the year... code freezes / deployment freezes will start at lots of companies. A deepdive on approaches at Big Tech; the upsides; downsides; and companies that don't do this at all: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/code-freezes
Looking for a Staff Platform Engineer for one of my teams at Clarity AI. Lean Agile/XP, not theater. Building platform that enables innovation. Strong cloud/infra (AWS, k8s, IaC). Lean team (8-9) where you can make real impact. Remote Spain job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/clarityai/jo... RTs appreciated
Staff Platform Product Engineer
Remote
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A good explanation from Arthur C. Brooks about why we should embrace boredom, in his video at youtu.be/orQKfIXMiA8
antropia.studio/blog/karumi-... q bonito. A veces en la vida hay q echarse a un lado para que alguien lo haga mucho mejor q tú. Y Sergio es claramente esa persona.
Karumi 2.0
Exploring how my years at Karumi shaped Antropia's human-centered approach to work and cooperative ownership.
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Pedazo de artículo de Rebeca Méndez sobre la arquitectura seguida en el backend de Manfred 👏 medium.com/@breogana/ar...
Arquitectura sin fliparse: hexágonos, monolitos y decisiones pragmáticas
Si llevas un tiempo desarrollando software, seguro que te has topado con el eterno debate de las arquitecturas: que si microservicios, que…
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An article worth reading, for those in leadership positions - The 10 Biggest Leadership Blindspots Based on 10 Years of Research newsletter.canopy.is/p/the-10-big...
The 10 Biggest Leadership Blindspots Based on 10 Years of Research
How to identify these blindspots for yourself, and most importantly, how to avoid them
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Trade-off sliders, a tool that can help you take decisions. Because usually selecting A or B is about how each one affect the trade-offs.
Code is liability. Less code = less problems. Delete unused features! #simplicity
Adding more people (a lot of times) just doesn't make things faster 🤷♀️
Take-aways: - Positions of power require more care with the humor we practice, though respect should always come first. - Humor tends to be more prevalent in the ages when we take life less seriously. - Message sign-offs have great potential 😈
One book recommendation for this month 🤓 ydarias.github.io/thinking-in-...
Thinking in Systems
During the last months, I read a few posts from Alfredo Artiles talking about Systems Thinking, and that pushed me to read the book by Donella Meadows. It was a great decision, and I would like to tel...
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