There’s a new category of companies whose business is selling dataset and/or data analytics and processing atop, which I’d like to call them the “Data Asset” companies. E.g. monitoring/metrics/log vertical like DataDog, Dynatrace, Chronosphere, Splunk, SumoLogic gaming vertical like Game Analytics location vertical like SafeGraph, MapBox, Esri crypto vertical like…

Recently I got approached by lots of companies and their first openings are along the same line: “I’m from ABC, an AI company that … ”, “We are the fastest-growing AI company that raised $xxx with $yyy valuation… ” Ok, ok, I still will not join an “AI” company. …

Recently I had a case where a very senior engineer in my team cannot let go his engineering pride in a project, and I had to step in and fix it before it’s too late. Here’s the context: the very senior engineer has joined for over 6 months. Before joining…

The engineering team who works on the core open source projects at a OSS-backed company is unique. With OSS commercialization getting popular, such engineering team becomes common, e.g. in companies like MongoDB, Elastic, Databricks, Confluent, etc. Such engineering team is unique in the way that, despite all the normal, common…

I got lots of ask on how to hire and retain very senior ICs. And here’re my experience and thought process. Note that this is actually generally applicable to any IC, but the very senior ones may be worth more of your time. 0. Who are they? …

最近几个月一直在结合自身的团队实际情况，思考管理方面的东西。作为一个小团队的老板，我把员工分成两个坐标四个象限 （即四种）- 坐标是output(产出) v.s. maintenance (维护成本） 四类四象限是： - 低产出，低维护 low output, low maintenance - 低产出，高维护 low output, high maintenance - 高产出，低维护 high output, low maintenance - 高产出，高维护 high output, high maintenance （低产出，高维护）明显是要开除的，这类员工不开就是累赘，有信号以后要早早跟老板反映，尽快开始PIP。一般开掉这类员工都问题不大，因为他们的缺点如此明显，以至于你老板肯定都知道。开除更多的是时间问题而已，有些人识趣自己就走了，不识趣的需要3–6个月走PIP。 （高产出，低维护）明显是人才，这类员工是团队的顶梁柱，不太耗费你的时间，但是能分担你很多工作量。作为manager, 要帮助这类员工规划好职业路径，想方设法留住人才并帮助他们成长。

Innovations of Infrastructure Software are Happening in China The tech trend in the past few decades has always been that innovations from US are exporting to the rest of the world, including China, with big impacts. It’s the same in infrastructure software field in China. Open source software originated from US and EU flourish in adoptions at all…

(written in early 2020, published in 2021) I’ve built and hired, and been managing our developer advocate and product marketing team for about a year. …

Gorden Remessey is an engineering leader