Tech has always evolved quickly. New frameworks, new architectural patterns, new flavors of Agile have always shown up faster than anyone could absorb. AI has cranked the pace up to a level that makes the old churn look slow. Coding assistants change every month, the patterns for using them keep shifting, and even what counts … Continue reading The Antidote to Impostor Syndrome at Startups in the age of AI
Author: Jim McMullen
I Built the Platform, Survived the Acquisition, Then Retired My Own System
The day I found out the company I'd helped build was being acquired, my mind went straight to the application. I'd spent six years as the senior technical leader of a healthcare data SaaS company. I'd built our platform from a proof of concept, scaled the engineering team, owned product decisions alongside our CEO, and … Continue reading I Built the Platform, Survived the Acquisition, Then Retired My Own System
The Player-Coach Has a Shelf Life
I was fixing a production bug late one night during my time at The Ignition Group. The bug was in a scheduled job that processed inbound data files, and I had traced the problem to a specific method in the data access layer. The fix itself was straightforward. What caught me was the git blame. … Continue reading The Player-Coach Has a Shelf Life
Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 3: Scaling into the Cloud and through an Acquisition
By this point, the platform was doing what it was designed to do. The multi-tenant database had replaced a dozen separate client environments. The data access layer and reporting engine were generating several million dollars a year in revenue. The automation tooling had gotten the data team back on schedule. We'd grown from about a … Continue reading Building a SaaS Platform from Zero, Part 3: Scaling into the Cloud and through an Acquisition
The Boring Architecture Decisions That Quietly Compound
Every few years software engineers converge on a new paradigm, and suddenly it feels like you're falling behind if you haven't adopted it. Microservices. Event-driven architecture. Server-side rendering coming back around. Each of these emerged because real teams hit real scaling problems and needed better solutions. Before adopting any of them, ask whether your team … Continue reading The Boring Architecture Decisions That Quietly Compound
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