Camille Fournier

Senior Thinker and Raconteur

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January 2021
- Jan 31, 2021 Make Boring Plans Jan 31, 2021
April 2016
- Apr 1, 2016 You can bring a horse to water... Apr 1, 2016
February 2016
- Feb 12, 2016 What do I do with my time? Feb 12, 2016
January 2016
- Jan 28, 2016 Qualitative or Quantitative but always Analytical Jan 28, 2016
- Jan 25, 2016 Hiring Engineering Managers: Screening for Potential Jan 25, 2016
December 2015
- Dec 31, 2015 What is a Technology Company, Really? Dec 31, 2015
- Dec 2, 2015 Reorgs Happen Dec 2, 2015
November 2015
- Nov 27, 2015 The Manager as Debugger Nov 27, 2015
- Nov 6, 2015 Truth and Consequences of the Technical Track Nov 6, 2015
October 2015
- Oct 22, 2015 Open Source Culture Oct 22, 2015
- Oct 13, 2015 Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose... What's Missing? Oct 13, 2015
- Oct 1, 2015 Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods Oct 1, 2015
July 2015
- Jul 29, 2015 Have a Theory Jul 29, 2015
- Jul 21, 2015 Ask the CTO: Going Rogue Jul 21, 2015
June 2015
- Jun 28, 2015 Vision and Trust: External and Internal Leadership Jun 28, 2015
- Jun 2, 2015 The Trials and Temptations of the New Leader: "Cool Factor" Jun 2, 2015
May 2015
- May 21, 2015 Entrepreneurial Gap May 21, 2015
March 2015
- Mar 21, 2015 Get Curious Mar 21, 2015
February 2015
- Feb 8, 2015 On the role of CTO Feb 8, 2015
January 2015
- Jan 13, 2015 A Letter to My Team for Review Season Jan 13, 2015
- Jan 3, 2015 Meaningful 2014: Everybody Hurts (notes on SparkCamp) Jan 3, 2015
December 2014
- Dec 6, 2014 The Best Decision I Made in 2014 Dec 6, 2014
October 2014
- Oct 22, 2014 "Meritocracy" and the Tyranny of Structurelessness Oct 22, 2014
- Oct 9, 2014 When Defining Reality, Don't Forget To Deliver Hope Oct 9, 2014
August 2014
- Aug 10, 2014 On Charm, Skills and Management Aug 10, 2014
June 2014
- Jun 7, 2014 Accountability and authoritarians Jun 7, 2014
May 2014
- May 28, 2014 Revisiting ideas: Promotion from Within May 28, 2014
- May 10, 2014 Please stop threatening me with Moore's Law May 10, 2014
February 2014
- Feb 5, 2014 Getting From Here to There Feb 5, 2014
January 2014
- Jan 15, 2014 SOA and team structure Jan 15, 2014
December 2013
- Dec 31, 2013 2013: The Constant Introspection of Management Dec 31, 2013
July 2013
- Jul 31, 2013 Replatforming? The Proof is in the Hackday Jul 31, 2013
May 2013
- May 20, 2013 ZooKeeper and the Distributed Operating System May 20, 2013
February 2013
- Feb 8, 2013 Branching Is Easy. So? Git-flow Is Not Agile. Feb 8, 2013
December 2012
- Dec 30, 2012 Make it Easy Dec 30, 2012
- Dec 20, 2012 Building a Global, Highly Available Service Discovery Infrastructure with ZooKeeper Dec 20, 2012
November 2012
- Nov 18, 2012 On Fit and Emotional Problem Solving Nov 18, 2012
October 2012
- Oct 14, 2012 Get Better Faster Oct 14, 2012
September 2012
- Sep 9, 2012 Becoming the Boss Sep 9, 2012
August 2012
- Aug 20, 2012 The Science of Development Aug 20, 2012
- Aug 12, 2012 Being Right Aug 12, 2012
- Aug 1, 2012 Growing New Leaders: A Modest Proposal Aug 1, 2012
July 2012
- Jul 22, 2012 The Siren Songs of Hack Day Projects Jul 22, 2012
- Jul 12, 2012 On Yaks and Hacks Jul 12, 2012
- Jul 5, 2012 Moneyball Jul 5, 2012
June 2012
- Jun 20, 2012 Code Reviews, Code Stories Jun 20, 2012
- Jun 14, 2012 There Is No Number Jun 14, 2012
- Jun 9, 2012 Corporate culture: A lesson in unintended consequences Jun 9, 2012
May 2012
- May 31, 2012 War Stories: Guava, Ehcache, Garbage Collection May 31, 2012
- May 27, 2012 Hammers and Nails: Managing Complexity May 27, 2012
- May 17, 2012 Process Debt and Team Scalability May 17, 2012
- May 13, 2012 Budgeting for Error May 13, 2012
- May 2, 2012 Intuition, Effort, and Debugging Distributed Systems May 2, 2012
April 2012
- Apr 26, 2012 Scaling in the Small Apr 26, 2012
- Apr 18, 2012 Scaling: It's Not What It Used To Be Apr 18, 2012
- Apr 12, 2012 Debug Your Career: Ask for Advice Apr 12, 2012
- Apr 5, 2012 Parallelism and the Limits of Languages Apr 5, 2012
March 2012
- Mar 28, 2012 Yes, and... Mar 28, 2012
- Mar 22, 2012 Java console monitoring basics: The "j" series Mar 22, 2012
- Mar 15, 2012 One Feature in One Month or Ten in Six? Mar 15, 2012
- Mar 8, 2012 Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework Mar 8, 2012
- Mar 1, 2012 Three Reasons You Should Be Training Your Successor Mar 1, 2012
February 2012
- Feb 22, 2012 Networking woes in Java Feb 22, 2012
- Feb 16, 2012 The value of physical objects Feb 16, 2012
- Feb 9, 2012 Quick Wins: Monitoring Request Times in Play with Coda Metrics Feb 9, 2012
- Feb 1, 2012 Developer Joy, Part 2 Feb 1, 2012
January 2012
- Jan 25, 2012 Developer Joy Jan 25, 2012
- Jan 18, 2012 Keep it Simple, Dingus Jan 18, 2012
- Jan 12, 2012 Framework Developers, Application Developers Jan 12, 2012
- Jan 6, 2012 (E)Git Pain, Git Joy Jan 6, 2012
December 2011
- Dec 31, 2011 2011: My Year of Open Source Dec 31, 2011
- Dec 28, 2011 A quick one: Testing log messages Dec 28, 2011
- Dec 24, 2011 Effective performance testing Dec 24, 2011
- Dec 17, 2011 Valuing time, and teamwork Dec 17, 2011
- Dec 10, 2011 Do the Right Thing Dec 10, 2011
- Dec 4, 2011 Interviewing for Judgement Dec 4, 2011
November 2011
- Nov 12, 2011 A new computer Nov 12, 2011
- Nov 7, 2011 NoSQL and the Enterprise Developer Nov 7, 2011
- Nov 5, 2011 ZooKeeper 3.4: Lessons Learned Nov 5, 2011

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