Rachel Myers, an engineer from GitHub, joins us to talk about flat management hierarchies, micro services, asset management and zombie movies.

• No managers
• How does work get done?
• Problems with having no structure
• Eventually getting managers
• Tradeoffs
• Engineering popularity contests
• Dog fooding
• First time managers
• What does a good manager do?
• Conway's law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
• Micro services as proxies for team communication
• Ruby on Rails - shared asset management
• On boarding new engineers with micro services
• Handling service failures
• - Aftershow -
• Micro service performance overhead
• Document oriented vs relational databases
• Making simple things hard - buttons
• Code reviews
• Code that runs way too long in production