Swizec Teller

Take ownership, have autonomy, and be a force multiplier on your team

Senior Engineer Mindset

Serverless Handbook for Frontend Engineers

What happens when your startup hits the hockey stick? Customers are flooding in, deadlines are relentless, and your engineering team is drowning in technical debt. Scaling isn't optional-it's survival. In Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick, veteran startup engineer Swizec Teller shares hard-won lessons from leading teams through hypergrowth. From women's health startups scaling to nine-figure Series B rounds to biotech platforms going from zero to eight-figure revenue in just three years, this is a practical guide to thriving when demand explodes. You'll learn how to: Scale the business without losing product-market fit Grow teams with trust, delegation, and high-output culture Balance speed, quality, and technical debt Use feature flags, small-a agile, and continuous delivery to keep shipping Know when to let small fires burn-and when to fix them fast Architect your code to increase velocity and reduce bugs Drawing on real startup war stories, this book shows what works (and what doesn't) when your company is growing faster than your systems can handle. If you liked Accelerate, The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies, or The Lean Startup, Scaling Fast is your engineer's playbook for surviving-and thriving-in hypergrowth. Whether you're an engineer on your first rocket ship, a tech lead managing rapid growth, or a founder scaling without breaking everything, this book will help you navigate chaos, build resilient systems, and keep moving forward. Early praise for Scaling Fast: "Scaling Fast is a superb introduction to Software Engineering. It covers the soft skills necessary to execute on a high-functioning team, as well as coding skills necessary to ship well-designed features. I can't recommend it strongly enough." Adam Rackis Software Engineer & Author "Congrats on PMF. Now don't blow it. Swizec is a grizzled veteran of the surreal PMF terrain where opportunity and danger lurk. He's created the field guide that shows you how to keep your head, keep your customers, and turn traction into lasting strength." Kyle Mathews Founder of Gatsby and ElectricSQL "The year is 2025, and somehow Swizec Teller wrote a tech book without a single YAML deployment snippet or AI hype cycle diagram. Instead, Scaling Fast brings us something far more valuable: a practical, honest, and often funny guide to what actually makes fast-growing software companies succeed - people, teams, and a bit of architectural sanity." Bas Steins Engineering Leader

Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick

Scaling Fast

What happens when your startup hits the hockey stick? Customers are flooding in, deadlines are relentless, and your engineering team is drowning in technical debt. Scaling isn’t optional—it’s survival. In Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick, veteran startup engineer Swizec Teller shares hard-won lessons from leading teams through hypergrowth. From women’s health startups scaling to nine-figure Series B rounds to biotech platforms going from zero to eight-figure revenue in just three years, this is a practical guide to thriving when demand explodes. You’ll learn how to: Scale the business without losing product–market fit Grow teams with trust, delegation, and high-output culture Balance speed, quality, and technical debt Use feature flags, small-a agile, and continuous delivery to keep shipping Know when to let small fires burn—and when to fix them fast Architect your code to increase velocity and reduce bugs Drawing on real startup war stories, this book shows what works (and what doesn’t) when your company is growing faster than your systems can handle. If you liked Accelerate, The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies, or The Lean Startup, Scaling Fast is your engineer’s playbook for surviving—and thriving—in hypergrowth. Whether you’re an engineer on your first rocket ship, a tech lead managing rapid growth, or a founder scaling without breaking everything, this book will help you navigate chaos, build resilient systems, and keep moving forward. Early praise for Scaling Fast: "Scaling Fast is a superb introduction to Software Engineering. It covers the soft skills necessary to execute on a high-functioning team, as well as coding skills necessary to ship well-designed features. I can't recommend it strongly enough." Adam Rackis Software Engineer & Author "Congrats on PMF. Now don't blow it. Swizec is a grizzled veteran of the surreal PMF terrain where opportunity and danger lurk. He's created the field guide that shows you how to keep your head, keep your customers, and turn traction into lasting strength." Kyle Mathews Founder of Gatsby and ElectricSQL "The year is 2025, and somehow Swizec Teller wrote a tech book without a single YAML deployment snippet or AI hype cycle diagram. Instead, Scaling Fast brings us something far more valuable: a practical, honest, and often funny guide to what actually makes fast-growing software companies succeed — people, teams, and a bit of architectural sanity." Bas Steins Engineering Leader Book Review 1: "One of the most important skillsets in a career in tech startups is scaling yourself through hypergrowth — there is no greater wealth engine in Silicon Valley when you get it right, and there is no other skillset more underestimated by developers who rather fixate on pure code. This is the first book I've seen focused on helping you scale the business, scale the team, and scale the tech in your next startup, from someone who's now done it twice!" ~ Shawn Swyx Wang, founder of Latent Space Book Review 2: ”When your projects find their market and it’s time to scale a few orders of magnitude, this is the book for you” ~ Kitze, founder of Zero To Shipped Book Review 3: As a recent IC-turned-engineering manager at a fast-growing company. I’ve found this book invaluable! Since reading it, I’ve ruthlessly cut back on the amount of parallel work streams and soloist developers, and focused I’ve on having everyone work as a team. We’re getting more done, and I have more confidence in handing off more authority and autonomy to the team.” ~ Glen Stovall, author of Product Thinking for Engineers Book Review 4: "Congrats on PMF. Now don’t blow it. Swizec is a grizzled veteran of the surreal PMF terrain where opportunity and danger lurk. He's created the field guide that shows you how to keep your head, keep your customers, and turn traction into lasting strength." ~ Kyle Mathews, founder of Gatsby and ElectricSQL Book Review 5: The year is 2025, and somehow Swizec Teller wrote a tech book without a single YAML deployment snippet or AI hype cycle diagram. Instead, Scaling Fast brings us something far more valuable: a practical, honest, and often funny guide to what actually makes fast-growing software companies succeed — people, teams, and a bit of architectural sanity. As someone who's seen growth from both the “just ship it” trenches and the “why are we rewriting this again?” meeting rooms, I can say this book hits close to home. Swizec doesn't waste time on silver bullets. He gives you actionable advice for the messy middle: how to keep teams productive as headcounts double, how to build tech that doesn't collapse under its own cleverness, and how to stay focused on real business outcomes while your startup hurtles through hockey-stick growth. It's part therapy, part playbook, and fully worth your time. ~ Bas Steins, host of Conversations with people in tech

Andy Kirk

Simon Timms

Ǯdrew Rininsland

Unleash the power of data by creating interactive, engaging, and compelling visualizations for the web About This Book Get a portable, versatile, and flexible data visualization design approach that will help you navigate the complex path towards success Get thorough explanation of the many visual variables and visualization taxonomy to provide you with a menu of creative options A comprehensive and contemporary introduction to data-driven visualization design and the most effective approaches to designing impact-maximizing and cognition-amplifying visualizations Who This Book Is For This course is for developers who are excited about data and who want to share that excitement with others and it will be handy for the web developers or data scientists who want to create interactive visualizations for the web. Prior knowledge of developing web applications is required. You should have a working knowledge of both JavaScript and HTML. What You Will Learn Harness the power of D3 by building interactive and real-time data-driven web visualizations Find out how to use JavaScript to create compelling visualizations of social data Identify the purpose of your visualization and your project's parameters to determine overriding design considerations across your project's execution Apply critical thinking to visualization design and get intimate with your dataset to identify its potential visual characteristics Explore the various features of HTML5 to design creative visualizations Discover what data is available on Stack Overflow, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ Gain a solid understanding of the common D3 development idioms Find out how to write basic D3 code for server using Node.js In Detail Do you want to create more attractive charts? Or do you have huge data sets and need to unearth the key insights in a visual manner? Data visualization is the representation and presentation of data, using proven design techniques to bring alive the patterns, stories, and key insights that are locked away. This learning path is divided into three modules. The first module will equip you with the key techniques required to overcome contemporary data visualization challenges. After getting familiar with key concepts of data visualization, it's time to incorporate it with various technologies. In the second module, Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript, it teaches you how to leverage HTML5 techniques through JavaScript to build visualizations. It also clears up how the often complicated OAuth protocol works to help you unlock a universe of social media data from sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Once you are familiar with the concepts of incorporating data visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript, third module, Learning d3.js Data Visualization, will lead you to D3, which has emerged as one of the leading platforms to develop beautiful, interactive visualizations over the web. This module provides a strong foundation in designing compelling web visualizations with D3.js. By the end of this course, you will have unlocked the mystery behind successful data visualizations. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Data Visualization: a successful design process by Andy Kirk Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript by Simon Timms Learning d3.js Data Visualization, Second Edition by Ǯdrew Rininsland and Swizec Teller Style and approach This course includes all the resources that will help you jump into creating interactive and engaging visualizations for the web. Through this comprehensive course, you'll learn how to create engaging visualizations for the web to represent your data from start to finish!

Data Visualization: Representing Information on Modern Web

Ændrew Rininsland

Create and publish your own interactive and compelling data visualizations with D3.js 4.x About This Book Build interactive and rich graphics and visualization using JavaScript`s powerful library D3.js Learn D3 from the ground up, using the all-new version 4 of the library Gain insight into producing high-quality, extensible charts and visualizations using best practices such as writing testable, extensible code and strong typing Who This Book Is For This book is for web developers, interactive news developers, data scientists, and anyone interested in representing data through interactive visualizations on the Web with D3. Some basic knowledge of JavaScript is expected, but no prior experience with data visualization or D3 is required to follow this book. What You Will Learn Map data to visual elements using D3's scales Draw SVG elements using D3's shape generators Transform data using D3's collection methods Use D3's various layout patterns to quickly generate various common types of chart Write modern JavaScript using ES2017 and Babel Explore the basics of unit testing D3 visualizations using Mocha and Chai Write and deploy a simple Node.js web service to render charts via HTML Canvas Understand what makes a good data visualization and how to use the tools at your disposal to create accurate charts In Detail Want to get started with impressive interactive visualizations and implement them in your daily tasks? This book offers the perfect solution-D3.js. It has emerged as the most popular tool for data visualization. This book will teach you how to implement the features of the latest version of D3 while writing JavaScript using the newest tools and technique You will start by setting up the D3 environment and making your first basic bar chart. You will then build stunning SVG and Canvas-based data visualizations while writing testable, extensible code,as accurate and informative as it is visually stimulating. Step-by-step examples walk you through creating, integrating, and debugging different types of visualization and will have you building basic visualizations (such as bar, line, and scatter graphs) in no time. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the techniques necessary to successfully visualize data and will be ready to use D3 to transform any data into an engaging and sophisticated visualization. Style and approach This book follows a tutorial-based approach in teaching the world's most powerful data visualization library, D3.

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