Josh Fruhlinger

Staff engineers are technical leaders who have deep domain knowledge, walking the line between tech and the business.

In the world of AI, cloud services, and automation, the tools and expertise engineering managers need to mine large-scale data sets are changing, fast.

Two new reports reveal that AI skills are in high demand – but the human touch is needed more than ever.

The question of whether to build software in-house or rely on third-party vendors is more fraught than ever, as budgets come under scrutiny and internal teams get stretched after waves of layoffs.

A tech lead isn’t a manager and may not even get a raise. But it’s a reflection of your leadership skills as you climb the ladder.

Technical debt is a ubiquitous problem for engineering managers, but what does it actually mean and how can you best attack it while balancing the other needs of the business?

Site reliability engineers apply software techniques to operations to maximize uptime and avoid costly outages. But is this approach right for your organization?

As a software architect, you’re going to implement some big ideas – but you can’t lose sight of the details.

Making it easier for software developers to do the right thing more easily should be a major priority for engineering leaders. The emerging practice of platform engineering could just be the answer.

If your organization is modernizing how it develops software, you are probably going to need a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes. Here's why.

Observability goes beyond logs, metrics, and traces, and it's up to you as a manager of engineers to set out the vision and policies to make that possible.

DevOps promises faster, better software delivery cycles. How do you best set up your organization to reap these benefits?

A lead developer will still get their hands dirty in the codebase, but needs to know how to hire, lead, and talk to management.

The chief technology officer is the top of the software engineering career ladder, but there are many routes to reaching the position. Here are the expectations for the role, how to get there, and what you could earn.

A director of engineering is responsible for keeping an entire engineering function humming. Find out what skills you need to climb the ladder to this vital position.

This fulfilling role takes you a step beyond a lead engineer. Find out how to best showcase your skills to land it.