Work Notes

Sharing experience, insights, and practical solutions from real projects. Architecture, performance, processes, and teams.

2025-12-22·42 min

Code Review: From Formality to Team Growth Engine

Code Review in 80% of teams is theater. 'LGTM' in 30 seconds, a checkbox before merge, wasted time. I've watched for 12 years how reviews kill productivity instead of boosting it. Here's a system that transforms CR from bureaucracy into your team's primary growth tool.

#Code Review
#Software Engineering
#Team Culture
#Engineering Management
#Best Practices
#Development Process

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2025-10-17·22 min

Blameless Postmortems: How to Turn Incidents into Team Growth

Production crashed Friday night. Team fixed it by 3 AM. Monday meeting: CTO yells 'Who screwed up?!' Developers stay silent. Incident will repeat. I've seen this 40 times. Postmortem isn't an interrogation. It's a system that turns mistakes into growth. Breaking down blame-free culture, report structure, and what to do with results.

#DevOps
#SRE
#Incident Management
#Postmortem
#Team Culture
#Engineering Management

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