Daily Software Awesome — 10/15/14

I’m going to use this space to share what I’m reading, what I’m doing, and what I think about things.

How To Recruit And Build Engineering Teams — Mike Lee discusses how to build engineering teams at a startup, with an interesting 80/20 ratio for junior and senior developers, respectively. Ties in pretty nicely to my management offsite today when we talk about culture, and what kind of team mix is nice. We don’t hire kids out of school in our engineering organization, and I wish we did, so maybe we can put a case together, using this article as a basis for the case. I’m not totally sure that 80/20 is a great ratio, but if you have a really good pipeline of junior folks, you can afford a little churn while you find the right people, and hopefully you can turn those into senior contributors and get that ratio more like 50/50.

Datastax on Error Handling Done Right — All stuff we should know, but the best practices around Cassandra development are still a moving target, so it’s a good level-set.

Introduction to Functional Programming — Hey, look! I’m learning Haskell. I’ve dabbled in functional programming, and feel like it’s time to “get fundamentalist” about it and see what I can take away.