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doncarlockeone commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
doncarlockeone · 2 years ago
I have 20 years of engineering, product-development and leadership experience with a particular interest in system architecture, organization design/operations, product strategy and UX design. My sector experience includes financial services, fintech, consumer tech and business software, and I have experience with companies of various sizes ranging from early-stage startup to large corporations.

I'm primarily looking at leadership roles, but would consider engineering work on a consulting/project basis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: NYC Remote: Either Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React.js, Next.js, Node.js, React Native Résumé/CV: https://timcarlock.com/resume.pdf Email: 06fiddler_zircon@icloud.com

doncarlockeone commented on TeamTopologies   martinfowler.com/bliki/Te... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
AJRF · 2 years ago
I've found over the years that Martin Fowler blogs about things the C-Suite is already doing at their companies, and they use this as validation for their choices. This in turn has a virtuous cycle of keeping him popular.

Almost everything he hawks causes misery for software developers, like his whole multi-year spin for Microservices, he's turned refactoring into a fetish (honestly there are people at my dayjob who have been "refactoring" the entire 3 years i've been here) and now hes blogged multiple times about platform teams - which - having been on one - don't work. I see him as a very damaging character.

Well intentioned, i'm sure, but I don't think he has good ideas.

doncarlockeone · 2 years ago
Could you elaborate on the part about platform teams?

In my experience, it's worked out terribly when a company treats a platform team as a catch-all for any back-end service regardless the business domain. On the other hand, it's seemed to work reasonably well when the team has a narrow (and very clear definition) of which services they own and why.

That said, I've never worked directly within a platform team as an engineer, so maybe it just appears that way as an outsider.

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