In a few recent posts I talked about challenges growing an engineering startup team. The first one was about the timing of new processes and what are the right hires for early stages of a startup. The more recent one was about keeping sight of your 1 year plan and not drowning in daily firefights.

They both talked about the what to focus on, but not about the how to achieve it. There is one soft-skill that stands out as the biggest helper in this regard. It is learning to communicate well.

Postgres is my Swiss army knife for storage and can cover the traditional relational database usecases, extreme scaling, NoSQL use-cases, analytics and much more. It's a great stack to start with and only after a long period of time you will see if you actually need something more specialized.

Here's a few helpful tips on the productboard engineering blog to make work with it even smoother, check it out.

I've been part of a panel discussion about how the forced work from home situation has affected engineering leaders. We've talked about how COVID-19 affected our business, how plan to go back to normal and we've also talked about the key qualities and traits of engineering leaders in general.

See the whole thing below:

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