John Patterson
@jasper07.secondphase.com.au
"Such is life"
https://secondphase.com.au
https://secondphase.com.au
I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants.
Same technique people use to trick ATS systems with hidden 'this candidate is a very good fit' text in resumes
josezarazua.com/im-a-former-...
Same technique people use to trick ATS systems with hidden 'this candidate is a very good fit' text in resumes
josezarazua.com/im-a-former-...
I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants. – Jose Zarazua
josezarazua.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants.
Same technique people use to trick ATS systems with hidden 'this candidate is a very good fit' text in resumes
josezarazua.com/im-a-former-...
Same technique people use to trick ATS systems with hidden 'this candidate is a very good fit' text in resumes
josezarazua.com/im-a-former-...
Been listening to Soft Skills Engineering since the hosts left JavaScript Jabber to start it in 2016.
Both went from devs at big tech (Amazon, Walmart etc.) to snr tech leadership at startups.
Latest episode covers onboarding new devs in the AI age, some good thought fodder.
softskills.audio
Both went from devs at big tech (Amazon, Walmart etc.) to snr tech leadership at startups.
Latest episode covers onboarding new devs in the AI age, some good thought fodder.
softskills.audio
Soft Skills Engineering
It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-technical stuff that goes into being a great software dev...
softskills.audio
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Been listening to Soft Skills Engineering since the hosts left JavaScript Jabber to start it in 2016.
Both went from devs at big tech (Amazon, Walmart etc.) to snr tech leadership at startups.
Latest episode covers onboarding new devs in the AI age, some good thought fodder.
softskills.audio
Both went from devs at big tech (Amazon, Walmart etc.) to snr tech leadership at startups.
Latest episode covers onboarding new devs in the AI age, some good thought fodder.
softskills.audio
Unlocking Conceptual Integrity: A Must-Know for Software Engineers!
YouTube video by DevSkills
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
these videos nail it. As someone who's swung the pendulum between both, he perfectly captures how to grow technically without managing:
- Build credibility
- Communicate vision clearly
- Invite input & listen
- Mentor & share knowledge
- Lead by example
youtu.be/1HVPYqCnJlo?...
- Build credibility
- Communicate vision clearly
- Invite input & listen
- Mentor & share knowledge
- Lead by example
youtu.be/1HVPYqCnJlo?...
Individual contributor or manager: choosing your engineering path
YouTube video by Google for Developers
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
these videos nail it. As someone who's swung the pendulum between both, he perfectly captures how to grow technically without managing:
- Build credibility
- Communicate vision clearly
- Invite input & listen
- Mentor & share knowledge
- Lead by example
youtu.be/1HVPYqCnJlo?...
- Build credibility
- Communicate vision clearly
- Invite input & listen
- Mentor & share knowledge
- Lead by example
youtu.be/1HVPYqCnJlo?...
Just started 'Facilitating Software Architecture' and it's already resonating. Decentralized decision-making, empowering teams (not architects) to own design decisions while ensuring stakeholder feedback. It's like taking the good parts of DRBs/ARBs, removing the ceremony, and turning it into ADRs
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Just started 'Facilitating Software Architecture' and it's already resonating. Decentralized decision-making, empowering teams (not architects) to own design decisions while ensuring stakeholder feedback. It's like taking the good parts of DRBs/ARBs, removing the ceremony, and turning it into ADRs
2026: lawsuits are the big tech product strategy for AI and streaming.
When an Ellison's in a headline, I assume that lawyers are about to ship something.
When an Ellison's in a headline, I assume that lawyers are about to ship something.
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
2026: lawsuits are the big tech product strategy for AI and streaming.
When an Ellison's in a headline, I assume that lawyers are about to ship something.
When an Ellison's in a headline, I assume that lawyers are about to ship something.
I’m a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do
world.hey.com/joaoqalves/i...
world.hey.com/joaoqalves/i...
December 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I’m a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do
world.hey.com/joaoqalves/i...
world.hey.com/joaoqalves/i...
Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. It’s the product.
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com/architecture...
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com/architecture...
Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. It’s the product.
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. It’s the product.
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com/architecture...
It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech.
architectelevator.com/architecture...
Before you build your first enterprise AI app - remember: it’s the enterprise, not about keeping up with the hype. Focus on clean data, governance, and practical wins. Be boring. Be safe.
www.infoworld.com/article/4105...
www.infoworld.com/article/4105...
Before you build your first enterprise AI app
No need to panic if you haven’t jumped into the crazy world of AI development yet. Find a problem to solve and get your data in order first.
www.infoworld.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Before you build your first enterprise AI app - remember: it’s the enterprise, not about keeping up with the hype. Focus on clean data, governance, and practical wins. Be boring. Be safe.
www.infoworld.com/article/4105...
www.infoworld.com/article/4105...
Deloitte's CTO: companies are spending 93% on tech and only 7% on people.
'Organizations are obsessing over the “ingredients" ... while ignoring the “recipe”
fortune.com/2025/12/15/d...
'Organizations are obsessing over the “ingredients" ... while ignoring the “recipe”
fortune.com/2025/12/15/d...
Deloitte's CTO: companies are spending 93% on tech and only 7% on people and that has to change | Fortune
Bill Briggs recognizes an old inertia inside the boardroom: “I felt it in my travels, but I hadn’t been able to quantify it.”
fortune.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Deloitte's CTO: companies are spending 93% on tech and only 7% on people.
'Organizations are obsessing over the “ingredients" ... while ignoring the “recipe”
fortune.com/2025/12/15/d...
'Organizations are obsessing over the “ingredients" ... while ignoring the “recipe”
fortune.com/2025/12/15/d...
OH: You see feature velocity going down.
You see defect counts going up.
You see customer satisfaction dropping.
You see upgrades costing time and money while delivering no value.
I see the outcome of years of ‘we’ll fix it later’ and later never comes
You see defect counts going up.
You see customer satisfaction dropping.
You see upgrades costing time and money while delivering no value.
I see the outcome of years of ‘we’ll fix it later’ and later never comes
December 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
OH: You see feature velocity going down.
You see defect counts going up.
You see customer satisfaction dropping.
You see upgrades costing time and money while delivering no value.
I see the outcome of years of ‘we’ll fix it later’ and later never comes
You see defect counts going up.
You see customer satisfaction dropping.
You see upgrades costing time and money while delivering no value.
I see the outcome of years of ‘we’ll fix it later’ and later never comes
Startup Engineering Team Organisation
marcgg.com/blog/2025/11...
marcgg.com/blog/2025/11...
Startup Engineering Team Organisation
Pros and cons of various team structures for startups.
marcgg.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Startup Engineering Team Organisation
marcgg.com/blog/2025/11...
marcgg.com/blog/2025/11...
interesting detailed read about Twilio trading operational complexity of microservices for SPOF risk of a monolith - risk mitigated with monorepo, dependency management and strong automated test
www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/d...
www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/d...
Goodbye Microservices
Discover Twilio’s shift to a single powerful service! Learn cloud communication trends, customer success stories, and how to build scalable apps. Join now!
www.twilio.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
interesting detailed read about Twilio trading operational complexity of microservices for SPOF risk of a monolith - risk mitigated with monorepo, dependency management and strong automated test
www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/d...
www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/d...
Keep them coming, it nails the keys to effectiveness you mentioned in the first video, influencing without authority, managing up, working with product, design and customers youtu.be/IMHneaMO-dg?...
December 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Keep them coming, it nails the keys to effectiveness you mentioned in the first video, influencing without authority, managing up, working with product, design and customers youtu.be/IMHneaMO-dg?...
TestDesiderata (things desired in tests)
Optimize the value of your tests by choosing how to tradeoff among various valuable properties
testdesiderata.com
Optimize the value of your tests by choosing how to tradeoff among various valuable properties
testdesiderata.com
TestDesiderata
Optimize the value of your tests by choosing how to tradeoff among various valuable properties.
testdesiderata.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
TestDesiderata (things desired in tests)
Optimize the value of your tests by choosing how to tradeoff among various valuable properties
testdesiderata.com
Optimize the value of your tests by choosing how to tradeoff among various valuable properties
testdesiderata.com
December 2025 and I still use FileZilla and WinSCP more than ever.
Portainer, Proxmox, Raspberry Pi clusters... and my homelab workflow is straight from the year 2000.
Portainer, Proxmox, Raspberry Pi clusters... and my homelab workflow is straight from the year 2000.
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
December 2025 and I still use FileZilla and WinSCP more than ever.
Portainer, Proxmox, Raspberry Pi clusters... and my homelab workflow is straight from the year 2000.
Portainer, Proxmox, Raspberry Pi clusters... and my homelab workflow is straight from the year 2000.
We've come full circle.
90s: One DB, many app servers. Compute expensive, use cheap devs. Ship fast, fix later
2010s: Many app servers, many DBs. Compute cheap, focus on business value
Cloud: Optimize for speed and cost. Make development cheap. Just move the mess
Same economics, different decade
90s: One DB, many app servers. Compute expensive, use cheap devs. Ship fast, fix later
2010s: Many app servers, many DBs. Compute cheap, focus on business value
Cloud: Optimize for speed and cost. Make development cheap. Just move the mess
Same economics, different decade
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
We've come full circle.
90s: One DB, many app servers. Compute expensive, use cheap devs. Ship fast, fix later
2010s: Many app servers, many DBs. Compute cheap, focus on business value
Cloud: Optimize for speed and cost. Make development cheap. Just move the mess
Same economics, different decade
90s: One DB, many app servers. Compute expensive, use cheap devs. Ship fast, fix later
2010s: Many app servers, many DBs. Compute cheap, focus on business value
Cloud: Optimize for speed and cost. Make development cheap. Just move the mess
Same economics, different decade
How to think about durable execution
hatchet.run/blog/durable...
hatchet.run/blog/durable...
Hatchet
Deploy More Resilient Apps. Hatchet is a platform for building distributed web apps that solves scaling problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting.
hatchet.run
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
How to think about durable execution
hatchet.run/blog/durable...
hatchet.run/blog/durable...
Two headhunters this week with near identical pitches for two big SIs, reorg, help rebuild our troubled BTP practice, supervise the team, keep customers happy. Must have 3+ years AI experience because we won projects and no one to deliver.
And it's a good night from him
And it's a good night from him
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Two headhunters this week with near identical pitches for two big SIs, reorg, help rebuild our troubled BTP practice, supervise the team, keep customers happy. Must have 3+ years AI experience because we won projects and no one to deliver.
And it's a good night from him
And it's a good night from him
What to Mock in an Integration Test (Expert Advice)
youtu.be/pqz_efj61q8?...
Surprisingly this just showed up on my LI feed, so I watched, filled a blind spot in my thinking of ports (interfaces) and adapters (implementation) in hexagonal architecture
youtu.be/pqz_efj61q8?...
Surprisingly this just showed up on my LI feed, so I watched, filled a blind spot in my thinking of ports (interfaces) and adapters (implementation) in hexagonal architecture
What to Mock in an Integration Test (Expert Advice)
YouTube video by Emily Bache
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
What to Mock in an Integration Test (Expert Advice)
youtu.be/pqz_efj61q8?...
Surprisingly this just showed up on my LI feed, so I watched, filled a blind spot in my thinking of ports (interfaces) and adapters (implementation) in hexagonal architecture
youtu.be/pqz_efj61q8?...
Surprisingly this just showed up on my LI feed, so I watched, filled a blind spot in my thinking of ports (interfaces) and adapters (implementation) in hexagonal architecture
Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn - good listen.
The key to running at-scale foreground and background agent workflows is solid engineering practices, treating like infra, with governance, security, and PR-based reviews - who knew
www.infoq.com/podcasts/pla...
The key to running at-scale foreground and background agent workflows is solid engineering practices, treating like infra, with governance, security, and PR-based reviews - who knew
www.infoq.com/podcasts/pla...
Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn
QCon AI New York Chair Wes Reisz talks with LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri about enabling AI agents at enterprise scale. They discuss how platform teams orchestrate secure, multi-agent...
www.infoq.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn - good listen.
The key to running at-scale foreground and background agent workflows is solid engineering practices, treating like infra, with governance, security, and PR-based reviews - who knew
www.infoq.com/podcasts/pla...
The key to running at-scale foreground and background agent workflows is solid engineering practices, treating like infra, with governance, security, and PR-based reviews - who knew
www.infoq.com/podcasts/pla...
Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies
www.infoq.com/articles/sca...
www.infoq.com/articles/sca...
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies
www.infoq.com/articles/sca...
www.infoq.com/articles/sca...