Startup

(the post is automatically translated by AI) In early 2026, I left my senior software engineer position at a large tech company to join a startup as a tech lead. Still figuring out both the technical and managerial sides, I’m hoping this series of journal entries will help me look back years later and see how I’ve grown. In the previous entry, we unified the deployment process across all environments, giving us more confidence in changes and tests going forward. Now it was finally time to look at the system’s behavior under traffic spikes. ...

(the post is automatically translated by AI) In early 2026, I left my senior software engineer position at a large tech company to join a startup as a tech lead. Still figuring out both the technical and managerial sides, I’m hoping this series of journal entries will help me look back years later and see how I’ve grown. My first task after joining was to look back at the current system. This system had long struggled with auto-scaling, causing delays under sudden or sustained high traffic. ...