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Adam Berlinsky-Schine

Adam Berlinsky-Schine

WTF is Serverless?

Serverless architectures have been trending the past few years, and many people see them as the future of backend infrastructure. Let’s…

Jun 9, 2019

WTF is Serverless?

Jun 9, 2019

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WTF is git?

You’ve probably heard your engineers talking about git, Github, or source control. It may have been in the context of “let me pull the…

Aug 18, 2018

WTF is git?

Aug 18, 2018

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WTF is Net Neutrality?

Net neutrality has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. Your engineers might be making a stink about it, but it’s hard to…

Dec 12, 2017

WTF is Net Neutrality?

Dec 12, 2017

Adam Berlinsky-Schine

Why is everything broken?

If you don’t live and breathe tech, you probably don’t realize how much time is spent preventing and fixing bugs versus the amount of time…

Sep 8, 2017

Why is everything broken?

Sep 8, 2017

Adam Berlinsky-Schine

Why are engineers so bad at estimation?

Estimating engineering tasks is hard. It’s a skill that can be improved with practice, but even experienced engineers are often way off…

Jul 9, 2017

Why are engineers so bad at estimation?

Jul 9, 2017

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Why does my engineer care so much about a few milliseconds?

Software engineers place a lot of emphasis on code performance. There is often tension between non-engineers who want more time to be spent…

Jun 8, 2017

Why does my engineer care so much about a few milliseconds?

Jun 8, 2017

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Facebook does it. Why can’t we?

Some of the disagreements I’ve had with non-engineers in my career stem from an assumption that because someone else is doing it, we can do…

Jun 3, 2017

Facebook does it. Why can’t we?

Jun 3, 2017

Adam Berlinsky-Schine

Why do engineers worry about scaling?

If you’re a CEO or other business type, when you think “scaling” you think “I’m excited to increase our userbase and revenue by orders of…

May 29, 2017

Why do engineers worry about scaling?

May 29, 2017

Adam Berlinsky-Schine

WTF is technical debt?

Your engineer keeps saying her team really needs to dedicate some time to reducing technical debt. WTF does that mean? Why can’t they just…

May 26, 2017

WTF is technical debt?

May 26, 2017

Adam Berlinsky-Schine

I wrote the SQL query in 5 mins. Why does my engineer say it will take a month?

So you’re a woke MBA who learned HTML last weekend, took a class in SQL, or even audited a 6-week Rails bootcamp. That’s wonderful…

May 25, 2017

May 25, 2017

Adam Berlinsky-Schine

Adam Berlinsky-Schine

Writer, WTF Is My Engineer Talking About? CTO of Apiari. Former CTO of Coffee Meets Bagel. Ex-Amazon, ex-Yelp

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