Maintainable

Aaron Blohowiak: The Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer


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Robby speaks with Aaron Blohowiak, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. They discuss mistakes teams make when refactoring too much before finding a product-market-fit and how Netflix deals with technical debt. Aaron also shares some early era Ruby on Rails stories, along with reasons why developers might be intimidated to apply at top-tier organizations like Netflix.

Helpful Links
  • Aaron on Twitter
  • Aaron on LinkedIn
  • [Book] Radical Candor
  • [Book] Thinking in Systems
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