The Throughput Engineer: Why Headcount Is a Lagging Metric
Headcount is a lagging metric. The best engineering organizations measure throughput: decision speed, defect containment, and constraint removal.
Headcount is a lagging metric. The best engineering organizations measure throughput: decision speed, defect containment, and constraint removal.
The SRE hype train has everyone copying Google's playbook without asking whether it fits. Here's what actually matters when you're not running planet-scale infrastructure.