James Ma

I'm excited to share that our client-platform team at Docusign is open-sourcing our micro-frontend framework and development tooling ecosystem under the moniker 1FE <https://1FE.com>. 1FE is designed for large scaled teams who need to deliver components and widgets independently with velocity, but with a common customer experience and a shared set of tools including a CLI, and a best-practice out-of-the-gate CICD and QA pipeline. Because experiences are stitched together at run-time, individual developers can run and test their in-progress work within the context of a live production instance without impacting the broader group of customers. It was originally designed with the intention that it should be "easy to check-in good code and hard to check-in bad code". If you are an front-end engineering team struggling to release at scale and with velocity, I encourage you to check it out. #opensource #react #QA #javascript #frontend #microfrontend

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Meta just announced another AI reorg - again. While everyone debates strategy and spending, I'm thinking about the employees living through this constant change. Here's the reality: In AI today, rapid org shifts are inevitable. The technology evolves so fast that yesterday's structure becomes tomorrow's bottleneck. Meta's pattern isn't unique. Google, OpenAI, Anthropic - they're all constantly restructuring. But we're not talking enough about the psychological toll on the people building these systems. I've watched brilliant engineers go through three team changes in a year. They start questioning everything: Am I working on the right thing? Will this project even exist in six months? Should I even bother forming relationships with my new teammates? The human cost is real: ➡️ Senior engineers hoard knowledge because they don't know who they'll work with next quarter. ➡️ Mid-level engineers burn out not from technical challenges, but from repeatedly rebuilding trust and restarting projects. ➡️ Junior engineers never get the stability to develop deep expertise, or they never even get hired in the first place. Each restructure makes the next one feel more inevitable, more exhausting. People operate in permanent transition mode where creativity goes to die. As engineering leaders, we can't stop the pace of change in AI. But we can be intentional about how we shepherd our people through it: 👉 Acknowledge the emotional labor of constant change. 👉 Create stability where you can - rituals, standards, communication patterns. 👉 Invest in relationships, not just hiring. 👉 Be transparent about uncertainty. The race to superintelligence will be won by teams that maintain human connection and psychological safety while everything shifts around them. Here's the article: https://lnkd.in/eqy4VnkM

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Excited to share the launch of the Platform Team Toolkit at CircleCI! This new capability helps platform engineering teams strike the perfect balance between developer velocity and organizational control.  It's all about removing friction from the developer experience without sacrificing the guardrails that keep teams secure and compliant. https://lnkd.in/gpa-RpK9 #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #CICD #DeveloperExperience

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