Developing Your Leadership Skills toward Principal Engineering

Ben Linders — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:10:00 GMT

Work isn’t the only place where you can develop valuable leadership skills, Sophie Weston mentioned in the video The Principal Engineer’s Path from her QCon London talk. She suggested thinking about the things you do outside of your job where you can learn and practice useful leadership skills, and bringing your full skill set - your whole self - to work.

By Ben Linders

Podcast: Failure as a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems: a Conversation with Lorin Hochstein

Lorin Hochstein — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Lorin Hochstein about how real-world failures provide insight into how software systems actually work. Our first topic was understanding that while automated fault injection tools can introduce basic robustness into a system, they cannot replicate the understanding that comes from mitigating complicated software failures in the real world.

By Lorin Hochstein

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Developing Your Leadership Skills toward Principal Engineering

Podcast: Failure as a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems: a Conversation with Lorin Hochstein