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James Cowling

Stepping Stones not Milestones

Structure projects around delivering incremental value and eliminating unknown unknowns.

Mar 6, 2019

Stepping Stones not Milestones

Mar 6, 2019

Your System is not a Sports Team

Avoid engineering bias by orienting a team around a mission not a system.

Feb 13, 2019

Feb 13, 2019

Embracing Papercuts

Allow a team to be more productive by making mistakes.

Feb 5, 2019

Feb 5, 2019

Don’t lead by example

Dispelling a common leadership myth.

Jan 30, 2019

Jan 30, 2019

How many nines is my storage system?

How to estimate the durability guarantees of a storage system. There will be math!

Oct 31, 2018

How many nines is my storage system?

Oct 31, 2018

James Cowling

James Cowling

convex.dev co-founder. Infrastructure person. Reformed academic. Maker of things. Karaoke enthusiast.

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