Writing — 225 essays

Cultivating ideas at the intersection of Engineering and Systems Thinking.

A collection of essays, frameworks, and early-stage thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, and the human side of software.

Systems Map

Core architectural nodes of research.

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Platform Org Design

Scaling engineering teams via structural abstraction.

biotech

Feedback Loops

Entropy management in high-velocity CI/CD environments.

psychology

Human Factors

Cognitive load and its impact on system availability.

architecture

Pragmatic API

Designing interfaces that survive generational shifts.

history

Legacy Refactor

Social strategies for technical debt retirement.

Thinking in Public

225 Nodes
Aug 4, 2016Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #9

Development (blog): Why Kubernetes may be a bigger threat to Amazon than Google's cloud Creating a free piece of software is the best way to eat away at your competitors…

Jul 27, 2016Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #8

Development (software): howler.js - JavaScript audio library for the modern web Audio library for the modern web. - howler.js makes working with audio in JavaScript easy and reliable across all…

Jul 19, 2016Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #7

Environment (video): A Rare Look Inside The Doomsday Seed Vault Deep In The Arctic An inside look of the worlds doomsday seed vault. Development (blog): Why Kubernetes may be a…

Jul 15, 2016Archive

How to push a Docker image to Google Container Registry

Steps to push containers to Google Container Registry: Create a new docker image locally docker build -t <company name>/<image name> . Create a new docker tag with naming pattern for…

Jul 13, 2016Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #6

Web Development (blog): Tools for debugging, testing and using HTTP/2 To get the most out of HTTP/2 you'll want to be using an up to date web browser (all the…

Jul 8, 2016Archive

How to setup and install Docker on Google Compute Engine

Create a new Google Compute Engine (GCE) instance: Go to your Google Cloud Platform console Create a new Google Compute Engine, with Debian 8 or Linux distort of your choice.…

Jul 6, 2016Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #5

Technology (video): The Mill BLACKBIRD The Mill has created The Mill BLACKBIRD, the first fully adjustable car rig that creates photoreal CG cars – it’s a car rig that can…

Jul 3, 2016Archive

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional" Over the years when you've become successful with a given subject, whether it's work, design, speaking, or even having a kid, others look at…

Jun 30, 2016Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #4

Interview (podcast): Whitney Cummings on Turning Pain Into Creativity She is executive producer and, along with Michael Patrick King, co-creator of the Emmy nominated CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls, which…

Jun 22, 2016Archive

Maxwell Weekly 7: #3

Containers (video): Hitler uses docker Hitler uses Docker, complains about running in production and references Node.js and Go Lang Programming (blog): Git 2.9 New diff, rename validation Containers (class): Scalable…