Ship fast without breaking things

Every team slows down as it grows. More people, more code, more meetings, less shipping. It doesn't have to be that way.

These essays dig into velocity, teamwork, and taming complexity — the engineering side and the people side. They're the thinking behind Scaling Fast, my book on software engineering through hypergrowth.

Essays on shipping fast

3 articles from February 2025 · show all

Code yourself out of the job

Let go of your legos and let others do the work.

A pattern for composable UI in Flask

Turn your unwieldy Flask codebase into manageable, composable fragments with this UI pattern. Very close to HTMX.

How *do* you break down a large project? INVEST

Going from Big Vision to Series of Executable Steps is a key skill for senior+ engineers. PMs can help but they don't know everything.