Engineering - First Round Review (Page 3)

Making Engineering Team Communication Clearer, Faster, Better

Derek Parham specializes turning engineers into great communicators. Here's the framework he used to do it at both Google and on the Hillary Clinton campaign.

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Box’s VP Engineering on Biohacks For A Better Career

If your morning or nightly routine sounds about as far removed from your work life as you can get, think again. Biohacks, from blue-light blocking glasses to morning sessions in a sauna, add up — and can help you navigate not just your job, but a long, productive career.

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The Best Advice We Overheard at First Round's CTO Unconference

Our second annual CTO Unconference brought together 160+ of the sharpest technical leaders we know. Here's a rundown of some of the best tactics we heard them share.

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Six Steps to Superior Product Prototyping: Lessons from an Apple and Oculus Engineer

Engineering phenom Caitlin Kalinowski has worked on everything from the Oculus Touch to the MacBook Air. Here, she shares her playbook and philoisophy for product design and prototyping.

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Startups, Software Development and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance

LaunchDarkly CEO and Co-founder Edith Harbaugh biked solo across the U.S. in the summer of 2007. A decade later, her lessons from the road — from ways to grind through long stretches to how to approach forks in the road — still inform how she leads teams and builds software.

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Your Database is Your Prison — Here’s How Expensify Broke Free

Startups can fall into dangerous defaults when it comes to database architecture. Expensify founder and CEO David Barrett shares how his company sidestepped these missteps and made its database architecture one of its competitive advantages.

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The Three Infrastructure Mistakes Your Company Must Not Make

Avi Freedman has worked in networking for 30+ years and seen over 100 startups scale their infrastructure. Here are the most vital pieces of advice he has to share.

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The Rewards of Creator-Driven Cultures — And The Engineers That Can Deliver Them

From the earliest web browsers to cookies, JetInsight Co-founder and CTO Lou Montulli developed some of his most pivotal and enduring work in creator-driven cultures. Here, he covers how to create that environment — and why engineers must lead the way.