Published inThe Startup·Dec 20, 2020Member-onlyThe Feedback-Centric OrganizationLet’s consider two engineering managers, John and Jane. They have the same seniority, they both work on similar projects in similar conditions and their teams are both terribly smart. John insists on personally reviewing and approving every change, no matter how small. This doesn’t just concern the codebase: if an…Leadership7 min readLeadership7 min read
Published inThe Startup·Apr 30, 2020Member-onlyThe Transformative Nature of Ownership in Engineering OrgsDuring my career, I’ve had the honor of observing and being part of tens of engineering teams as a consultant, IC and manager. Obviously, not all of these teams were equally effective at reaching their goals: some worked like perfect machines, others fell apart at every little problem, and most…Leadership10 min readLeadership10 min read
Published inThe Startup·Mar 26, 2020Member-only5 No-Code eCommerce Management ToolsOriginally published at https://nebulab.it. As an eCommerce consulting firm, we know the value behind a custom store implementation: not going with a SaaS solution affords you maximum flexibility and endless innovation opportunities — there’s nothing a good development team can’t do. For digital brands, this can be powerful: when your…Ecommerce10 min readEcommerce10 min read
Published inThe Startup·Jan 18, 2020Member-onlyDriving organizational change with RFCsOnce the number of decision-makers in a company increases, it becomes increasingly more difficult to gather feedback and get stakeholder buy-in on organization-wide changes and policies. Conference calls and instant messaging, the two communication mediums of choice at most modern companies, are not the right tool for the job: their…Startup8 min readStartup8 min read
Published inThe Startup·Sep 29, 2019Member-onlyCoach Them Until It Hurts“I think I can run the demo on my own, you don’t need to be there.” That’s when I knew she didn’t need me anymore. Somewhere, deep inside, I felt a novel, weird sensation: it was pride and… what else? At the time, I was the CTO of a tech…Management3 min readManagement3 min read
Feb 27, 2019Evolution Techniques for RESTful APIsThis is a follow-up to UIs for Machines: Design Principles for HTTP APIs. One of the principles outlined in the original article is Evolution, and it suggests that developers should strive to keep their API relevant and up to date without sacrificing usability and backwards compatibility. While this is trivial…API5 min readAPI5 min read
Feb 13, 20196 Design Principles for Your HTTP APIsThere’s no debate around the fact that good API design is an art. When we stumble into a properly designed API, we can feel it. Just like good visual UIs, good APIs are not just beautiful, it’s functional and it saves everyone’s time. With this mind, it’s not a stretch…API7 min readAPI7 min read
Feb 7, 2019Le mani di RomaRoma ha sempre esercitato un fascino indescrivibile su di me. …Racconti2 min readRacconti2 min read
Jan 21, 2019Fail Better: Turning Software Errors into DocumentationThe open-source community has done a great job of promoting good documentation as a necessary trait for the success of a software project, whether it be a utility library, a larger framework or a standalone program. A project worth using will usually provide excellent documentation resources that go into different…Errors6 min readErrors6 min read
Jan 7, 2019My 2018 Annual Review2018 has had lots of ups and lots of downs for me. I’ve never published an annual review before, but I thought it would be fun to try. For me, the greatest value of this exercise lies in the ability to look back at the commitments I have made publicly…Annual Review6 min readAnnual Review6 min read
