engineering management

Do You Need a DevOps Engineer or a Sysadmin? Write the Work Down

The DevOps engineer vs sysadmin question is unanswerable as asked. A hiring guide for 5-to-50-person companies: the four clusters of ops work that get confused, a one-hour diagnostic that picks the role for you, why on-call maths kills single-hire plans, BLS wage data for the occupations these titles actually map to, and when a managed provider beats a hire.

Why Offshore Development Quality Is So Bad (It’s the Contract)

Bad offshore code is a rational output of fixed-bid contracts, pyramid staffing and 24-hour question latency, not of nationality. What the attrition and distributed-team research actually shows, and the seven things an engineering manager can change.