

Principal Engineer @wellhealthinc Building a better healthcare communication platform. Formerly instructor at @Makeschool.
In the first meeting with your mentor, and at least once per year after that, you will define your goals for the year and get them down in writing in a shared Google Doc. These goals typically include new things you want to learn (e.g., “I want to be proficient with Go by March” or “I will develop my speaking skills by giving 3 conference talks this year”) as well as projects you want to complete (e.g., “I will create modules for deploying and managing Kubernetes on Azure in Q3”).
After about a year of fast, sleep-defying scaling at Pinterest, we had MySQL, Memcache, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Membase and Elastic Search. Everything was on fire and breaking in their own special ways. We wanted to simplify and get rid of all the fancy stuff, but we also wanted something that would …