Vadim Kravcenko
vadimkravcenko.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2016
Vadim Kravcenko, a CTO who built a digital agency, writes about software engineering careers, code quality, and managing developers.
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- 1Aging Code5 people · 7 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 2The silent majority in software3 people · 295 points · first shared 2022 · 353 comments on HN
- 3Falsehoods junior developers believe about becoming senior3 people · 103 points · first shared 2024 · 125 comments on HN
- 4Healthy Code Reviews3 people · 15 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Managing Difficult Software Engineers3 people · 6 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Networking as an Introvert CTO3 people · 6 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 7Build vs. Buy: age old dilemma (2023)3 people · 5 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 8Every software is messy and has skeletons3 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 9Mental health in software engineering2 people · 396 points · first shared 2024 · 426 comments on HN
- 10Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup (2018)2 people · 50 points · first shared 2021 · 2 comments on HN
- 11Software Development Is Subjective2 people · 15 points · first shared 2022 · 3 comments on HN
- 12Engineering Scarcity Mindset2 people · 6 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13Security at Startup2 people · 5 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Interviews-as-a-Service2 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 15Product Owner vs. Project Manager: Who's Leading the Development?2 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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bndr · 2022-04-07
https://vadimkravcenko.com
I write mostly about how I build digital agency into millions of revenue, advice for early stage startups and scaling development to 100s of devs.
Pr0ject217 · 2022-02-07
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KronisLV · 2023-02-02
> I thought around 80% of big tech companies are still maintaining giant Java monoliths that are attached to a giant Oracle database that nobody understands.
I may or may not know lots of people who even develop new systems that way. In part due to them not knowing better, in part due to it being an okay fit for the problem that they want to solve and in part because they haven't and won't be fired for picking what has historically been a "safe" option.
More people have probably gotten burnt in the process of developing microservices and failing at it, than have been by their monoliths rotting over time and failing to scale, unless it's in an org with a strong ops culture and the support to do microservices right (with all of the tooling, like service meshes, tracing, orchestration and so on).
I reckon that many out there have done nor microservices, nor serverless, nor have any interest to. They're just the silent majority: https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/the-silent-majority/