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How to Avoid One of the Costliest Mistakes in Software Engineering

A few weeks ago, a young startup engineer reached out to me for advice. Her CEO had given her team 4 weeks to rewrite the web product from scratch. That was over 3 months ago. The project was now 2 months behind, the team was working overtime at 80+ hours per week, and a laundry list of bugs remained. Stress levels were high, and each passing day of not shipping... (more)

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“A comprehensive tour of our industry's collective wisdom written with clarity.”

— Jack Heart, Engineering Manager at Asana

“Edmond managed to distill his decade of engineering experience into crystal-clear best practices.”

— Daniel Peng, Senior Staff Engineer at Google

“I wish I had this manual to give my engineers when I was a VP of Engineering at Twitter. This summarizes and presents everything I used to tell my team.”

— Raffi Krikorian, Engineering Director at Uber

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