# Matt Weagle: What Will It Enable Us to Do in the Future?

EP-013 | July 8, 2019 | 28:15




Robby speaks with Matt Weagle, Engineering Manager at Lyft. Matt discusses how his engineering teams have handled technical debt in small iterations vs. a major rewrite, why a whiteboard is the best tool for architectural challenges, and the most common mistakes he sees when engineers approach legacy code bases.





## Show Notes

Robby speaks with Matt Weagle, Engineering Manager at Lyft. Matt discusses how his engineering teams have handled technical debt in small iterations vs. a major rewrite, why a whiteboard is the best tool for architectural challenges, and the most common mistakes he sees when engineers approach legacy code bases.

## Helpful Links:

- Follow Matt [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/mweagle)
- Matt [on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mweagle/)
- [Some Thoughts on Security After 10 Years of Gmail](https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/17/some-thoughts-on-security-after-ten-years-of-qmail%E2%80%931%E2%80%930/)
- [A Taxonomy of Yak Shaving](https://the-composition.com/a-taxonomy-of-yak-shaving-102da591308b)
- [Book] [The Manager's Path](https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897) by Camille Fournier
- [Book] [Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software](https://www.amazon.com/Release-Design-Deploy-Production-Ready-Software/dp/1680502395) by Michael T. Nygard
- [Book] [The Phoenix Project, A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win](https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/1942788290/) by Gene Kim , Kevin Behr
- [Book] [The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity](https://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum-Products/dp/0672326140/) by Alan Cooper
- [Book] [Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations](https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339) by Nicole Forsgren

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