Gergely Nemeth on engineering leadership, web and open-source

AI is doing to software what Toyota did to manufacturing: pulling out the buffer that let every broken process hide.

Managing managers means you're accountable for outcomes you can't directly observe.

AI tools are automating the work that once grew junior engineers into senior ones.

How to communicate reorganizations effectively: lead with direct conversations, own the narrative, and remember that how you treat people during change matters the most.

Growing engineering managers takes months (if not years) of intentional work—career conversations, shared reading, real apprenticeship—before they're ready for the role.

Why do experienced managers struggle to answer simple questions about their work?

Generative AI in Support of Developer Experience

A quick and fun exploration into what ChatGPT thinks about managing humans

My take on providing feedback, and a list of techniques that worked well for me in the past.

Tips to get the most out of your performance reviews to help your professional growth.

A quick overview on how to set up on-call rotations, on-call playbooks, as well as how to handle incident response and post-mortems.

Team charters are living documents that align team members to a common goal, and inform the organization where they can be most effective.

As software engineers, the goal is always to improve the quality of the software we help develop, especially if other engineers are depending on this quality to complete their own projects.

Transitioning from a software engineering position to a managerial one can be quite a leap.

Employee Pulse or Satisfaction Survey gives you some metrics on how your organization does in certain areas.

This article is an attempt in providing a framework for engineering and product teams to reduce the inherent friction and the time required to complete planning cycles.

There seems to be a growing trend in technology--and in all aspects of our lives, really--to measure everything: business outcomes, organizational success, and individual performance.

Ted Lasso is one series we all need in 2020.

Modern web development came a long way.

A primer on running efficient sprints

Measuring engineering productivity should be focused on outcomes and not outputs.

An article that contains small tips and practices that I've been following for years and helped me regain some of my time

The Manager 1:1 Questions extension tries to provide you questions that you can use as conversation starters or dive deep on different topics

With Vidal Graupera, we've dived into engineering managment, and my background in it.

Most managers have 1:1s with their team members - hopefully, this article helps you get the most out of yours!

Lessons learned from working on Base Web, Uber's new extensible design system architecture

Engineering-management books that help you become the manager you’ve always wished to have

Coding as an engineering manager can challenging - this article helps you find the opportunities to do so

By 2017, 71% of us were using Kubernetes.

Instead of Homebrew, Docker may be just fine

This article helps you set up your local environment, so you can develop against AWS services locally, without provisioning any resources in the cloud

A quick update on Node.js Security - npm acquires the Node.js security project, npm 6 ships with `npm audit`

This article walks you through how you can develop an application locally using Kubernetes

With Docker and Kubernetes Go got quite some traction - it’s time to learn it!

Tips and best practices on how to build secure JavaScript applications

A list of guides / best practices, which if you follow, you may become a better Node.js developer in 2018

Terminus adds graceful shutdown and health checks for your applications

On creating a unified error handling logic for your Express applications

Puppeteer is a Node library which provides an API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol.

Node.js 8 became the LTS version on 31 October 2017, and Node.js 9 became the current Node.js version

Mastering async functions in Node.js - error handling, parallel execution and complex control flows

A look at where we are with Node.js security, and what you can do to keep your customer's data safe

A free Disqus alternative using GitHub comments, mainly for blogs with developer audiences

On leaving RisingStack, and starting at GoDaddy on 2 October