engineering - Cody Django Redmond

Cody Django Redmond

engineering

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A Thinking Ape Engineering FAQ

What kind of problems do you solve at ATA? Well, everyone knows we build mobile games. But sometimes folks are surprised to learn that our games are built against a shared backend composed of dozens of microservices. It's not just games that we build. We build platforms for games, too.

Lightbend Academy is free (for a while)

https://academy.lightbend.com/ I've been curiously monitoring the whole reactive architecture [http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/] development over the past five years or so. I haven't had a significant business case to pivot on technologies, but now I can at least get more familiar and experienced through this excellent online

Aligning personal narratives with business objectives

I recently started a new job as an engineering lead at a mobile game company. My responsibilities are typical for engineering management and technical lead roles, as well as a dash of project management. Among other things, I'm responsible for: * the prioritization, scoping and planning of work * the establishment of

My favorite books on Engineering Leadership

A few people have asked, so here it is. I haven't read every book out there, so please tweet at me if I'm missing good ones! 1. Peopleware [https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439] by Tom DeMarko and Timothy Lister. This is the classic. Originally published in 1987, the