How to Structure Your First Engineering Team
The order you hire your first 10 engineers matters more than the headcount. How to sequence the hires, what ratios work, and the mistakes that slow teams.
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The order you hire your first 10 engineers matters more than the headcount. How to sequence the hires, what ratios work, and the mistakes that slow teams.
SOC 2 is not as scary as it sounds. Here is what engineering teams actually need to implement, the tools that automate 80% of it, and what to skip.
Trunk-based, Git Flow, GitHub Flow — we have tried them all. Here is the simple Git workflow that works for teams under 10 and the mistakes to avoid.
P.04Every engineering team faces build vs buy decisions constantly. Here's a practical framework for making these decisions without analysis paralysis.
P.05Measuring developer productivity is notoriously difficult. DORA and SPACE frameworks offer research-backed approaches, but implementation is where most teams fail.
Microsoft appointed Charlie Bell, formerly its security chief, as its first engineering quality czar, citing the rising cost of AI reliability failures.
P.07Every codebase carries technical debt; the difference is whether you manage it intentionally. Here is how to identify, prioritize, and pay it down.
How we split our agency website into two repos — one for code, one for content — and why this architecture scales better than a monolith. With our exact Git submodule setup, GitHub Actions validation, and content workflow.