Viljami Kuosmanen articles - 13 total
Dealing with Pushback to Product Engineering
I was recently confronted by a product engineer colleague here at epilot, frustrated with some of his...
The Sauna Epiphany: How I Got Product Engineering Wrong
If you've seen my posts lately you've probably seen a lot of talk about Product Engineers: software...
Bullshit Tech Roles (satire)
In any sufficiently well-funded or otherwise successful tech company, a set of new roles will...
The Product Engineer Checklist
Download the PDF at productengineer.org How to Think Like a Product Engineer The...
What is a Product Engineer?
Read the full Product Engineer Manifesto at productengineer.org Not Just Coders, but...
After 3 years: Bets I made as Head of Engineering rewriting the epilot SaaS – worth it?
In this post, we take a look back at some of the most influential decisions I implemented early on in...
Comparing REST, GraphQL & tRPC
As an author and maintainer of open source libraries to work with REST APIs, and as someone making a...
How we do engineering @ epilot
Ever since open-sourcing our core Engineering Principles back in January 2021, I regularly get asked...
First year as Head of Engineering @epilot - Killing the Legacy Monolith
This post is a personal account of my experience at epilot.cloud and our journey rebuilding our...
Surprising Performance Lessons from React Microfrontends in Production
The epilot engineering team stands at 27 developers 1 year after the launch of our rewritten portal...
API First: How Teams Collaborate on Software Design
TL;DR: APIs are the single most useful design tool for teams collaborating on software. Teams who...
4 Levels of API Adoption
The following is my list of non-technical patterns and common characteristics to describe degrees of...
Testing React With Jest and OpenAPI mocks
Kent C. Dodds recently wrote a very interesting post calling an end to mocking window.fetch when...