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Jul 24, 2024 • 
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We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened
Jan 9, 2023 • Alex Ewerlöf
Staff Engineer vs Engineering Manager
Nov 24, 2024 • Alex Ewerlöf
6 Archetypes of Broken Ownership
Aug 1, 2023 • Alex Ewerlöf
When a team is too big
May 15 • Alex Ewerlöf

Technical Leadership

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Wardley Maps & Pace Layering for Senior Tech Leads and Engineering Leaders
Intro to both tools, why they exist, how they overlap and pragmatic tips how to use them and when
Jun 6 • 
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Ephemeral taskforce
The pragmatic alternative to technical committees
May 31 • 
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Staff archetypes are anti-patterns
Why the Staff+ archetypes are counterproductive and what to do instead?
May 14 • 
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Reliability Engineering

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SLI Evolution Stages
How to dodge vanity metrics and measure the right service level indicator and why?
Aug 27 • 
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SLI Compass: Fidelity and Granularity
A Mental Model to Assess Existing SLIs and Evaluate New Ones. We discuss 2 dimension: fidelity shows how closely your SLI is measuring the user…
Aug 8 • 
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Service Level Topology
Visualizing the service consumption and measurement topology while avoiding the most common SLI/SLO pitfalls
Aug 3 • 
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