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Lessons from Brendan Gregg

Brendan Gregg, the performance engineer behind Flame Graphs and the USE method, builds tools for tracing software bottlenecks and measuring latency. His evidence-first approach shows developers how to locate system limits and debug infrastructure methodically.
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Lessons from Hillel Wayne

Hillel Wayne, a software consultant and author, translates formal methods such as TLA+ for working programmers. His Crossover Project examines engineering’s real messiness, while his broader work asks teams to treat correctness as an explicit design choice.
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Lessons from Jessie Frazelle

Jessie Frazelle, a software engineer who built core Docker and Kubernetes components, approaches systems engineering and the technology industry from first principles. Her work across containers and hardware design brings blunt scrutiny to inherited technical assumptions.
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Lessons from Kellan Elliott-McCrea

Kellan Elliott-McCrea, formerly an engineering leader at Etsy, Dropbox, and Flickr, helped normalize continuous deployment and blameless post-mortems. His writing examines managing up, technical debt, and the trust required to build healthy engineering cultures.
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Lessons from Lara Hogan

Lara Hogan, a leadership coach and former engineering executive, clarifies the human side of software development. Her BICEPS and Manager Voltron frameworks offer practical ways to distribute support, resolve team friction, give clear feedback, and strengthen management habits.
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Lessons from Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann, a Cambridge researcher and author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, untangles distributed systems, databases, and formal verification. His work pairs technical rigor with engineering ethics and a case for local-first software that frees user data from centralized clouds.
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Lessons from Werner Vogels

Werner Vogels, Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, helped drive the company’s move into cloud computing and define its approach to distributed systems at scale. His frameworks reveal how software architecture and engineering-team structure reinforce one another.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Sandi Metz

Sandi Metz, a software engineer and author, champions simple, changeable object-oriented code over clever abstraction. Her practical guidance on testing and refactoring centers a durable judgment call: when duplication is tolerable and when design should evolve.

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