{"product_id":"the-effective-engineer-how-to-leverage-your-efforts-in-software-engineering-to-make-a-disproportionate-and-meaningful-impact-paperback-1","title":"The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBret Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eEdmond Lau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most effective engineers - the ones who have risen to become distinguished engineers and leaders at their companies - can produce 10 times the impact of other engineers, but they're not working 10 times the hours. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey've internalized a mindset that took me years of trial and error to figure out. I'm going to share that mindset with you - along with hundreds of actionable techniques and proven habits - so you can shortcut those years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroducing \u003ci\u003eThe Effective Engineer\u003c\/i\u003e - the only book designed specifically for today's software engineers, based on extensive interviews with engineering leaders at top tech companies, and packed with hundreds of techniques to accelerate your career. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor two years, I embarked on a quest seeking an answer to one question: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do the most effective engineers make their efforts, their teams, and their careers more successful?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI interviewed and collected stories from engineering VPs, directors, managers, and other leaders at today's top software companies: established, household names like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn; rapidly growing mid-sized companies like Dropbox, Square, Box, Airbnb, and Etsy; and startups like Reddit, Stripe, Instagram, and Lyft. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese leaders shared stories about the most valuable insights they've learned and the most common and costly mistakes that they've seen engineers - sometimes themselves - make. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is just a small sampling of the hard questions I posed to them: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat engineering qualities correlate with future success? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat have you done that has paid off the highest returns? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat separates the most effective engineers you've worked with from everyone else? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat's the most valuable lesson your team has learned in the past year? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat advice do you give to new engineers on your team? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEveryone's story is different, but many of the lessons share common themes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou'll get to hear stories like: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow did Instagram's team of 5 engineers build and support a service that grew to over 40 million users by the time the company was acquired? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow and why did Quora deploy code to production 40 to 50 times per day? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow did the team behind Google Docs become the fastest acquisition to rewrite its software to run on Google's infrastructure? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow does Etsy use continuous experimentation to design features that are \u003ci\u003eguaranteed\u003c\/i\u003e to increase revenue at launch? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow did Facebook's small infrastructure team effectively operate thousands of database servers? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow did Dropbox go from barely hiring any new engineers to nearly tripling its team size year-over-year? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat's more, I've distilled their stories into actionable habits and lessons that you can follow step-by-step to make your career and your team more successful. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe skills used by effective engineers are all learnable.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I'll teach them to you. With \u003ci\u003eThe Effective Engineer\u003c\/i\u003e, I'll teach you a unifying framework called leverage - the value produced per unit of time invested - that you can use to identify the activities that produce disproportionate results. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHere's a sneak peek at some of the lessons you'll learn.\u003c\/b\u003e You'll learn how to: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePrioritize the right projects and tasks to increase your impact. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarn more leeway from your peers and managers on your projects. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpend less time \u003ci\u003emaintaining\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efixing\u003c\/i\u003e software and more time \u003ci\u003ebuilding\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eshipping\u003c\/i\u003e new features. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduce more accurate software estimates. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eValidate your ideas cheaply to reduce wasted work. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNavigate organizational and people-related bottlenecks. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFind the appropriate level of code reviews, testing, abstraction, and technical debt to balance speed and quality. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShorten your debugging workflow to increase your iteration speed. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse metrics to quantify your impact and consistently make progress. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the past decade, Edmond Lau has worked as a software engineer in some of the top technology companies in Silicon Valley, including Google, Ooyala, Quora, and Quip. He's passionate about building great engineering teams, and he's interviewed over 500+ engineering candidates throughout his career as well as spoken to teams across the country on how to build great engineering cultures. At Quora, he built out the onboarding and mentoring programs used to train dozens of new engineering hires. His engineering and career advice has been featured on \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInc.\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e. He's also guest lectured at both MIT and Stanford on software design. 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