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The SHIELD Framework: How to Handle User Escalations Without Breaking Your Team
Practical framework for your next user escalation
Dec 29, 2025
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Ilija Eftimov
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How Meta, Google, Github and others leverage HTTP conditional requests to build robust REST APIs
Oct 26, 2022
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Ilija Eftimov
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Breaking the News: A Blueprint to Communicate Timeline Changes in Engineering Projects
Dec 17, 2023
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Ilija Eftimov
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How I would enter the software engineering field, if I had to do it over again
Jan 30, 2024
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Ilija Eftimov
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Don't Ever Forget to Challenge the Status Quo
Some timeless and cliché advice.
Oct 10, 2025
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Ilija Eftimov
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Why Product Engineers Who Don't Use Their Product Are Setting Themselves Up to Fail
The missing skill that separates good product engineers from great ones
Aug 18, 2025
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Ilija Eftimov
The Gap-Finder’s Advantage
How spotting what’s missing accelerates careers and grows leaders
Aug 6, 2025
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Ilija Eftimov
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Your PM is Gone, What Now?
The tactical playbook for engineering managers suddenly doing product management too (spoiler: it's terrible, but survivable)
Jul 17, 2025
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Ilija Eftimov
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The Strategic Art of Half-Assing (And Why Your Team Needs It)
When to deliberately take the quick path && how to do it without career damage
Jul 11, 2025
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Ilija Eftimov
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Scalability Under Scrutiny: Will the Technology Crumble Under Growth?
A technical deep-dive into evaluating startup scalability: what to check, what to ask, and when to walk away
May 9, 2025
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Ilija Eftimov
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Fix it, Flag it or Forget it? A Practical Technical Debt & Bug Triage Framework
A hands-on framework for engineering leaders for classification and prioritization of bugs and issues
Apr 22, 2025
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Ilija Eftimov
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