https://roniam.dev/blog/ Ron Bar-Tor on engineering management, identity, and the occasional bug worth telling the whole story about. en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://roniam.dev/blog/deadline-was-game-one/ https://roniam.dev/blog/deadline-was-game-one/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT In 2018, four engineers and I had a few months to make a CDN do something it had never done, for the NBA Finals. Here is what the project taught me, including the parts I only understood much later. https://roniam.dev/blog/in-the-critical-path-of-evolution/ https://roniam.dev/blog/in-the-critical-path-of-evolution/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Reorganizations land hardest on the teams that sit in the critical path of everything. Identity is the clearest example. What I learned, from both sides of the chart. https://roniam.dev/blog/sit-the-exam/ https://roniam.dev/blog/sit-the-exam/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT I built a learning platform with two CI gates and a few thousand assertions, and it still shipped four exercises that failed even when I got the right answer. The missing ingredient wasn't more tests. It was dogfooding, and knowing when to stop.