Imagine that you're a CTO, a Tech Lead or someone that has to make an early technical decision that will effect the company for years to come. What programming language do you choose? The cost of abstraction Systems tend to have two types of complexity. Complexity from the business-domain, and complexity from the...

Someone asked a group of engineers in our Slack channel this question the other day and I spent a whole bunch of time thinking about it. What do I wish I had known about engineering before I had started? What would have helped me the most? What’s been the biggest mistake I’ve made so far? Well, I wish I had known...