taw1516

I am learning how to build a simple hardware device where you can press a button and it will send a network request to my backend. What's your recommended resource to learn about how to productionizing such products (beyond the programming part)?

My background is in software engineering so I can pick up Rasperry Pi or something similar fairly easily.

We are a small startup of 5 people. Between people coming in and out and poor technical decisions, we ended up with two backend: one in Ruby and one in Go. Both are serving public data via a federated GraphQL API. Most of business domain logics are encapsulated in one server. But we have some shared logic that needs to be implemented in both. Instead of duplicating logic, I want to write these shared 'services' in the new backend (Go) and expose an internal API for Ruby to consume. What's the low lift way for a startup to implement something like this? Is it just a simple REST API consumed via JSON with an API key in the header?

I am familiar with engineering at scale blogs like AirBnB, Meta, or Netflix.

I am looking for something a scrappy team of 4 people pull together within 2 years of company inception. ie question like 1) what early day database schema looks like 2) what do we use for simple product analytics ...

About my situation: I am an ex-FAANG software engineer manager. I recently co-founded a startup as a CTO with 2 other friends. We raised a really big seed round from reputable VCs. However, 6 months into this journey, I realize I am not cut out for it. This is 100% on me and not a reflection of my team/product/vision

1. I have been in the managerial role for too long that my IC output is subpar

2. I made some bad technical/hiring decisions that led to tech debt

3. I cant keep up with the pace and stress.

This is not imposter syndrome. I genuinely think I am not measuring up and holding my friends back.

I think if I can quit to take a year off to recharge and hone my skill, I feel confident that I can go at it again either 1) bootstrap 2) raise a smaller round at a more reasonable valuation. But obviously this will raise all kinds of negative signals if I ever try to raise funding or building a team.

I don't really know what help or advice I am asking for here. So any input would be appreciated. Did anyone go through a similar path?