http://simonwillison.net/2017-11-05T06:16:38+00:00Simon Willison2017-11-05T06:16:38+00:002017-11-05T06:16:38+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2017/Nov/5/on-being-a-senior-engineer/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/">On Being A Senior Engineer</a></strong></p> Thoughts on characteristics of a mature engineer from John Allspaw back in 2012. So much good thinking in here—my favourite piece of writing on the subject. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-allspaw">john-allspaw</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/careers">careers</a></p>

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<p><strong><a href="http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/04/27/slides-from-capacity-planning-for-lamp-talk-at-mysql-conf-2007/">Capacity Planning for LAMP</a></strong></p> John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr). <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/2007/04/27/john-allspaw-capacity-planning-for-lamp-talk-at-mysql-conf-2007/">Kellan Elliott-McCrea</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/capacity-planning">capacity-planning</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flickr">flickr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-allspaw">john-allspaw</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mysql">mysql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a></p>