Michael Lynch shares what he learned by writing code at Microsoft and Google, and how that differs from the software practices that he embraces in his own software company.

We also talk about:

- what is the root cause when code reviews are evil

- how to establish a great code review practice

- software engineering practices at Google and Microsoft,

- how to balance code quality, time to market, and paying back technical debt

- writing software as a bootstrapped business

- his lessons learned building tiny pilot, including scaling customer support, software testing.