Code Reviews: A How to Guide
June brings sunny vibes in the PNW as I dive into sharing my code review strategies!
Artificial Intelligence: Polishing
I'm off to Disney World, but I've prepped insights on using AI for polishing your coding and writing to finish up our May topic!
Artificial Intelligence: Debugging
We celebrate 300 subscribers, explore AI examples for debugging, and share some new content for the week!
Artificial Intelligence: Brainstorming
After a fulfilling week of bonding with my team in Atlanta, I share tips on using AI for creative brainstorming!
Artificial Intelligence: AI, LLMs, MCP, ABC, DEF, and other acronyms
This week, I reflect on Boise Code Camp and kick off a busy month diving into AI!
Mentoring: Creating Effective Mentorship Programs
How to craft effective mentorship programs for your organization.
Mentoring: How to Find a Mentor
This edition covers how to find mentors and how to nurture those relationships!
Mentoring: How to Mentor
I’m celebrating 100 subscribers while sharing essential mentoring strategies for engineers! 🎉
Mentoring: How to be Mentored
This month we are talking about mentoring. This issue dives into how to be mentored!
Observability and monitoring in distributed systems
This week, I tackled the essentials of observability and monitoring in distributed systems to ensure you can find issues when they occur.
Geographic distribution and disaster recovery in distributed systems
This edition dives into multi-region strategies for geographic distribution and disaster recovery.
Building Fault Tolerance into Distributed Systems
This week in The Balanced Engineer Newsletter, we delve into designing fault tolerance into your distributed systems and why failures are inevitable.
Concurrency in Distributed Systems
This week, I'm diving into concurrency challenges in distributed systems and how to tackle them!
Understanding Scalability in Distributed Systems
This edition of The Balanced Engineer Newsletter dives into scalability in distributed systems, covering challenges for reaching scalability and common approaches!
Visibility: Writing
This week, I'm urging software engineers to embrace writing for greater visibility and influence.
Visibility: Social Media
This week, we discuss harnessing social media for professional visibility as a software engineer.
Visibility: Personal Branding
If the term “Personal Brand” makes you cringe, you're not alone. But after diving deeper into the topic this week, I’ve come to believe that developing your...
Visibility: Internal Visibility
February Theme: Visibility This month, we're diving into the topic of visibility—a key aspect of building your career and influence as a software engineer....
Availability: Incident Investigation
I saved my favorite topic related to Availability for last this month: Incident Investigation. It is near and dear to my heart, having changed careers to...
Availability: Dependency Management
January Theme: Availability Last week we talked about SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets. Check it out if you missed it! Today we are going to talk about...
