https://nemethgergely.com Hey! My name is Gergely, and this is where I write about engineering management and open-source. en-us Mon, 04 May 2026 02:33:50 GMT https://nemethgergely.com/gergely_nemeth.jpg https://nemethgergely.com AI is doing to software what Toyota did to manufacturing: pulling out the buffer that let every broken process hide. The rocks are coming up. That's the point. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-rocks-in-the-river https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-rocks-in-the-river Mon, 04 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Managing managers means you're accountable for outcomes you can't directly observe. Here's what I learned about building systems that make surprises rare and recoverable. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/echoes https://nemethgergely.com/blog/echoes Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:00:00 GMT AI tools are automating the work that once grew junior engineers into senior ones. If we lose the mentorship layer, we'll have faster pipelines and emptier benches. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/faster-pipelines-emptier-benches https://nemethgergely.com/blog/faster-pipelines-emptier-benches Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:00:00 GMT How to communicate reorganizations effectively: lead with direct conversations, own the narrative, and remember that how you treat people during change matters the most. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/managing-through-reorganizations https://nemethgergely.com/blog/managing-through-reorganizations Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:00:00 GMT Growing engineering managers takes months (if not years) of intentional work—career conversations, shared reading, real apprenticeship—before they're ready for the role. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/growing-engineering-managers https://nemethgergely.com/blog/growing-engineering-managers Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:00:00 GMT Why do experienced managers struggle to answer simple questions about their work? What I learned from hundreds of interviews about self-reflection. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-engineering-manager-interview https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-engineering-manager-interview Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:00:00 GMT Generative AI in Support of Developer Experience https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-future-is-now https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-future-is-now Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:00:00 GMT A quick and fun exploration into what ChatGPT thinks about managing humans https://nemethgergely.com/blog/chatgpt-on-managing-humans https://nemethgergely.com/blog/chatgpt-on-managing-humans Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:00:00 GMT My take on providing feedback, and a list of techniques that worked well for me in the past. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/how-to-provide-feedback https://nemethgergely.com/blog/how-to-provide-feedback Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:00:00 GMT Tips to get the most out of your performance reviews to help your professional growth. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/tips-for-performance-reviews https://nemethgergely.com/blog/tips-for-performance-reviews Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:00:00 GMT A quick overview on how to set up on-call rotations, on-call playbooks, as well as how to handle incident response and post-mortems. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/on-calls-and-incident-response https://nemethgergely.com/blog/on-calls-and-incident-response Tue, 31 Aug 2021 15:00:00 GMT Team charters are living documents that align team members to a common goal, and inform the organization where they can be most effective. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/team-charters https://nemethgergely.com/blog/team-charters Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:00:00 GMT This article is an attempt in providing a framework for engineering and product teams to reduce the inherent friction and the time required to complete planning cycles. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/better-quarterly-plannings https://nemethgergely.com/blog/better-quarterly-plannings Sat, 24 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT As software engineers, the goal is always to improve the quality of the software we help develop, especially if other engineers are depending on this quality to complete their own projects. However, these improvements come with a price. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/on-releasing-major-software-versions https://nemethgergely.com/blog/on-releasing-major-software-versions Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:00:00 GMT Transitioning from a software engineering position to a managerial one can be quite a leap. This article offers a few practical tips you can follow to help new engineering managers succeed. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/mentoring-first-time-managers https://nemethgergely.com/blog/mentoring-first-time-managers Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:00:00 GMT Employee Pulse or Satisfaction Survey gives you some metrics on how your organization does in certain areas. To make improvements, you have to dig deeper and get to the truth behind these numbers. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-truth-behind-employee-pulse-surveys https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-truth-behind-employee-pulse-surveys Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT There seems to be a growing trend in technology--and in all aspects of our lives, really--to measure everything: business outcomes, organizational success, and individual performance. But does it improve our lives? https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-tyranny-of-metrics https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-tyranny-of-metrics Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT Ted Lasso is one series we all need in 2020. It reminds us that kindness, being nice to each other, can make a difference and what good leadership is like https://nemethgergely.com/blog/coach-football-is-life https://nemethgergely.com/blog/coach-football-is-life Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT Modern web development came a long way. This article is a summary of how you can build your blog using React, Next.js and Base Web. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/building-your-blog-from-scratch https://nemethgergely.com/blog/building-your-blog-from-scratch Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:00:00 GMT A primer on running efficient sprints https://nemethgergely.com/blog/playbook-for-running-sprints https://nemethgergely.com/blog/playbook-for-running-sprints Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:00:00 GMT Measuring engineering productivity should be focused on outcomes and not outputs. This article provides a few ideas on how to go about it on the company, team and individual levels. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/engineering-productivity https://nemethgergely.com/blog/engineering-productivity Sun, 26 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT An article that contains small tips and practices that I've been following for years and helped me regain some of my time https://nemethgergely.com/blog/quest-to-take-your-time-back https://nemethgergely.com/blog/quest-to-take-your-time-back Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT The Manager 1:1 Questions extension tries to provide you questions that you can use as conversation starters or dive deep on different topics https://nemethgergely.com/blog/1-1-questions-chrome-extension https://nemethgergely.com/blog/1-1-questions-chrome-extension Sat, 22 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT With Vidal Graupera, we've dived into engineering managment, and my background in it. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/managers-club-interview https://nemethgergely.com/blog/managers-club-interview Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Most managers have 1:1s with their team members - hopefully, this article helps you get the most out of yours! https://nemethgergely.com/blog/meaningful-1-1 https://nemethgergely.com/blog/meaningful-1-1 Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT Lessons learned from working on Base Web, Uber's new extensible design system architecture https://nemethgergely.com/blog/design-system-lessons-learned https://nemethgergely.com/blog/design-system-lessons-learned Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT Engineering-management books that help you become the manager you’ve always wished to have https://nemethgergely.com/blog/engineering-management-books https://nemethgergely.com/blog/engineering-management-books Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT Coding as an engineering manager can challenging - this article helps you find the opportunities to do so https://nemethgergely.com/blog/coding-as-an-engineering-manager https://nemethgergely.com/blog/coding-as-an-engineering-manager Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT By 2017, 71% of us were using Kubernetes. This article helps you master Kubernetes, so you can deploy applications with confidence. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/deploying-nodejs-apps-to-kubernetes https://nemethgergely.com/blog/deploying-nodejs-apps-to-kubernetes Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT Instead of Homebrew, Docker may be just fine https://nemethgergely.com/blog/you-might-not-need-homebrew https://nemethgergely.com/blog/you-might-not-need-homebrew Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT This article helps you set up your local environment, so you can develop against AWS services locally, without provisioning any resources in the cloud https://nemethgergely.com/blog/skaffold-and-localstack-to-develop-aws-locally https://nemethgergely.com/blog/skaffold-and-localstack-to-develop-aws-locally Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT A quick update on Node.js Security - npm acquires the Node.js security project, npm 6 ships with `npm audit` https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-state-of-nodejs-security-2018-april https://nemethgergely.com/blog/the-state-of-nodejs-security-2018-april Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT This article walks you through how you can develop an application locally using Kubernetes https://nemethgergely.com/blog/using-kubernetes-for-local-development https://nemethgergely.com/blog/using-kubernetes-for-local-development Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT With Docker and Kubernetes Go got quite some traction - it’s time to learn it! https://nemethgergely.com/blog/learning-go-as-a-nodejs-developer https://nemethgergely.com/blog/learning-go-as-a-nodejs-developer Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT Tips and best practices on how to build secure JavaScript applications https://nemethgergely.com/blog/building-secure-javascript-applications https://nemethgergely.com/blog/building-secure-javascript-applications Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT A list of guides / best practices, which if you follow, you may become a better Node.js developer in 2018 https://nemethgergely.com/blog/nodejs-best-practices-how-to-become-a-better-developer-in-2018 https://nemethgergely.com/blog/nodejs-best-practices-how-to-become-a-better-developer-in-2018 Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT Terminus adds graceful shutdown and health checks for your applications https://nemethgergely.com/blog/nodejs-healthcheck-graceful-shutdown https://nemethgergely.com/blog/nodejs-healthcheck-graceful-shutdown Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT On creating a unified error handling logic for your Express applications https://nemethgergely.com/blog/error-handling-express-async-await https://nemethgergely.com/blog/error-handling-express-async-await Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT Puppeteer is a Node library which provides an API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. https://nemethgergely.com/blog/puppeteer-browser-automation https://nemethgergely.com/blog/puppeteer-browser-automation Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT Node.js 8 became the LTS version on 31 October 2017, and Node.js 9 became the current Node.js version https://nemethgergely.com/blog/what-is-new-in-nodejs-9 https://nemethgergely.com/blog/what-is-new-in-nodejs-9 Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT Mastering async functions in Node.js - error handling, parallel execution and complex control flows https://nemethgergely.com/blog/async-function-best-practices https://nemethgergely.com/blog/async-function-best-practices Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT A look at where we are with Node.js security, and what you can do to keep your customer's data safe https://nemethgergely.com/blog/nodejs-security-overview https://nemethgergely.com/blog/nodejs-security-overview Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT A free Disqus alternative using GitHub comments, mainly for blogs with developer audiences https://nemethgergely.com/blog/using-github-for-comments-on-your-blog https://nemethgergely.com/blog/using-github-for-comments-on-your-blog Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT On leaving RisingStack, and starting at GoDaddy on 2 October https://nemethgergely.com/blog/a-new-chapter https://nemethgergely.com/blog/a-new-chapter Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT