Emil’s Substack

A Cost-Based Decision Framework for Software Engineers

As software engineers, we’re constantly faced with a barrage of decisions.

Oct 24 • Emil Backlund

The Staff Engineer's Challenge: Balancing Impact

Ever feel pulled in two directions at once?

Oct 19 • Emil Backlund

October 2024

A foundation of team practices for new teams

An opinionated set of practices as foundation for software development teams

Oct 27, 2024 • Emil Backlund

September 2024

A study collection for engineering managers

In 2022 I wrote the first version of this post. Now I’m making an updated version that is solely focused on Engineering Management. Later I'll also do…

Sep 2, 2024 • Emil Backlund

April 2024

Staff Engineer Expectations

Helping Senior Engineers form an understanding of what is needed to reach Staff Engineer

Apr 8, 2024 • Emil Backlund

Immutable vs mutable schemas in APIs

How mutability affects reliability of APIs when consuming historical data.

Apr 2, 2024 • Emil Backlund

September 2023

Take ways from StaffPlus london

Having followed LeadDev conferences and content for many years, I was thrilled to finally attend the StaffPlus conference in London. Unfortunately, the…

Sep 1, 2023 • Emil Backlund

March 2022