HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. Motivating Them Engineers are motivated by a variety of things. MORE >>

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced. Sound good? Heres why. MORE >>

high level overview of the features is available here , while on Code as Craft we wanted to talk a bit more about the engineering that went into the SSL and two factor authentication features. When we initially discussed making the site fully accessible over SSL, we thought it might be a simple change given our architecture at the time. MORE >>

There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not. Diagrams, architectures, design, etc. Well, you get my point. Big deal. MORE >>

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. Stateful servers require more careful attention. to store it. MORE >>