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Roksolana
December 01, 2023
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Pain of engineering management
Presented at Functional Scala 2023 (London, UK)
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December 01, 2023
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Transcript
Pain of engineering management
Roksolana Diachuk •Engineering manager at Captify •Women Who Code Kyiv
Data Engineering Lead •Speaker
Transition (expectations)
Transition (reality)
Responsibilities People management Team/tech strategy Planning Engineering
Pain #1. Tech debt
Types of work 50% 50% Product Tech
State in the team 30% 70% Product Tech 15% 85%
Product Tech
Dif f iculties Priority of tech debt Team capacity It’s
boring!
Tech roadmap
Disaster case
DB migration Service 1 Service 2 Service 3
UI update Load to DBX New db in AWS Another
db in AWS DB migration
Pain #2. Libraries migration
Scala chapter
From Pants to SBT
Dif f iculties Unexpected build behaviour Shared code in libraries
Embedded libraries
What worked Scala chapter as space for discussions Teams capacity
planning (roadmaps) Blocked tasks with the update
Pain #3. Scala versions
2.12 Versioning nightmare 2.11 2.13
Dif f iculties Capacity planning Shared libraries between teams Different
progress in the codebase
What worked Ongoing initiative in the roadmap Teams collaboration Constant
review of the versions update
Pain #4. Pipelines evolution
Get deprecated and die Continue to live and rot Pipelines
EOL
40% pipelines deprecated Other 40% rewritten or planned to Pipelines
EOL
Data evolution
Infrastructure evolution
What worked Careful planning Space for research Review of the
business/tech needs
Pain #5. Onboarding newcomers
Full Stack to Scala engineer Scala book Scala course First
tasks Success!
Dif f iculties Scala environment Diverse tech Different coding styles
Lack of documentation
Full Stack to Scala engineer Scala book Scala course First
small f ixes In progress Refactoring Metrics and alerts creation
Prevention mechanisms Unification of approaches Constant code base updates Extensive
documentation Space for asking questions
Conclusions
Conclusions Team collaboration matters Engineering wide initiatives speed up changes
Tech debt directly affects performance Documentation is the key
Thank you for attention!
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