mike128

Hi there, I work at a company that is experiencing what I diagnose as growing pains. I’m looking for book recommendations that could help to direct the solutions.

A bit more context. The company is profitable with high margin, growing close to 100% year to year in the past couple of years. The tech department is around 250 engineers. The value the company provides relies heavily on the proprietary software products. Now we are in the situation where core product is a legacy monolith and a pain to keep iterating on.

Seems like what was working when the company was smaller does not scale anymore.

There are different initiatives being pushed from multiple angles aimed at bettering the situation. It seems like the coherent tech direction is missing that would allow to reorganize the company to be more effective.

That’s the gist of it. I’m sure we are not the first company facing this sort of struggles, but I have never worked for one in this situation. I’d appreciate book recommendations that could help me to propose right improvements - whether that is from the product/tech/leadership or any other direction that might be in my blind spot.

I’m awaiting a trial against a company providing a SaaS product. The product is based on a source code of mine and the company is using it without a license and refusing to stop the use.

The court delays in my jurisdiction (in Europe) are reaching many months and I’m looking for ideas how can I record the fact that they are operating the product for the purpose of the trial. This could be important in case they shut the product down before the trial takes place. Such record would give me a base for the claim for compensation for the period of unlicensed use.

Not sure if the technology stack is important here but the code is mostly Ruby on Rails and React.

Assuming you’ve got enough money to support yourself till the end of your days and then some, how would you spend your life?

I mean after funding all the dreams you might have initially, how would your day to day look like?