“In my less guarded moments, I refer to myself as a bureaucrat. Because bureaucracy is actually a very software-like scaling model. It’s not necessarily a bad word. Bad bureaucracy is bad and good bureaucracy is good.”

“I’d have nightmares about showing up with my co-founder at a VC event and all the technical questions were directed to her instead of me. I didn’t realize how much of my identity was bound up in being seen as a highly competent technical person.”

“If you have your unique set of engineering metrics and the business people have a bunch of different metrics, you are going to be misaligned. Sharing the same goals helps you fight that.”

In this edition of our peer-to-peer Q+A, Commit community member Kingsley Torlowei asks for suggestions in selecting a tool to help efficiently transform Figma designs into a working mobile application.

“You can’t innovate on everything, or you’ll spend all your time on bullshit, constantly ironing out tiny little details. You have to use the tried and true as much as possible so the things you build yourself can become real core differentiators.”

Commit Engineering Partner Anh Nguyen discusses his approach to building a tool to enhance the connections between the Commit community.

Our new report reveals what today’s salary savvy software developers need to be fulfilled at work.

In this edition of our peer-to-peer Q+A, a Commit community member asks for opinions on Rails—what is it good for? As well as what to do if you don’t hear back from an interviewer.

“We believe bringing together a relatively small group of incredibly talented folks will produce considerably more interesting and impactful outcomes than a much larger team that’s sprinkled with mediocrity.”