Latest / March 25, 2026
3 posts from engineering leaders published March 25, 2026, by Marc Brooker and Cal Paterson and David Cramer.
What about juniors? Start at the beginning. Last week I wrote about how the role of the most senior tech ICs has changed. Today, I wanted to share some thoughts on a more difficult topic: how the role of junior software engineers, folks just starting out on their career, has…
Why you shouldn't share your context window with others
I keep ending up in the same place: distributed tracing sounds great, but the instrumentation is a mess, the cost is obscene, and most of what I actually want is structured logs with a trace_id attached.