Anton Zaides

Dec 10, 2024 | zaidesanton.substack.com | Anton Zaides |Greg Tidanian |Raviraj Achar |Andrew Chen

95% of engineering managers wish to write more code, but feel they just can’t. Today I’m going to share 2 ideas you can implement with only a few hours a week, that will be a hugehelp for your dev team. One is from an EM in my company, who created a very cool internal ChatGPT that knows our Confluence, GitHub readme files, and public Slack channels. Join 15k+ engineering leaders for weekly(ish) articles on managing software teams!The second one is from a task I did myself a few weeks ago.

Feb 13, 2024 | zaidesanton.substack.com | Anton Zaides |Zach Wilson |Ian Vanagas |Kevin Naughton Jr.

I divided the SQL knowledge into 6 stages. I’m not an SQL expert (you can read my mistakes in ‘How I destroyed the company’s DB’) and I probably missed some stuff, so take it as a generalization: Very basic - select, from, where. Basic - group by and having. Beginners - joins - left/right/outer/inner/self join Intermediate - subqueriesMost people stop after learning this stage, and it’s a shame.

Dec 31, 2023 | techbooks.substack.com | Anton Zaides

Does this sound familiar? Your sales, marketing, and R&D teams are all in the same room with the business unit head, discussing what to put in the roadmap. The sales team is sure it knows what customers want because it’s constantly talking to its customers about their most pressing needs. The marketing team has reams of ideas for leveraging the existing brand, perhaps by offering new versions, new flavors, new colors, or special offers.