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This is a talk about impostor syndrome specifically in tech and specifically as it affects women who are relatively new in their careers. I’ve delivered this talk once, at the Squarespace Lounge at Grace Hopper in September 2020. When I took a poll during the event, 96% of the 270+ attendees said they had experienced this feeling of not being a “real engineer”. 96%! If you haven’t felt this way, or you’re not the intended audience, you are (obviously!) still very welcome here. This post may not resonate with you, but please understand that this phenomenon is very real for many of your colleagues. Think about whether you can change anything that contributes to that. Thanks for reading. I hope it’s helpful. I’ve been an engineer for more than twenty years. I love technology, I love learning new things, and I was never very interested in becoming a manager. So I stayed on the "technical track” and I’m a principal software engineer now. But when I came into the industry, I would never hav

No Idea Blog Menu Microservice Dependencies If you have more than a few microservices, their interdependencies get hard to reason about. I worked for a few years on a project to manage and control microservice dependencies and to make sure it would be possible to turn the company’s tech stack back on if we ever turned it off. Silvia Esparrachiari , Ashleigh Rentz and I wrote an article about the work, published in ACMQueue and Communications of the ACM. I also wrote a talk about it called “Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvk4RFGsrWo USEN

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