The Imposter's Roadmap

There is a rush that comes over you when you're responsible for shipping software for your client or boss. You have delivered, brought value, and made an impact. This is why we do this job: building software and changing the lives of the users that use it. Sure, coding is fun, but shipping is magical. It takes more than just drive and determination As a senior developer or project lead, you have to know your tools and processes. Source control management, Agile practices, container orchestration, how to test correctly, and how to debug a crashing application in a very short amount of time. These skills are cultivated over time, and if you're lucky, you have a lead who is showing you how to do these things, hopefully the right way. If you're unlucky, like I was, you're teaching yourself, learning on the fly. If that's you, then this book is for you.

I’m Rob Conery and I’ve been building software for over 25 years without a CS degree. I’ve created applications for huge corporations including Ameritech and Southwest Bell. I’ve contracted to Visa, Google, Starbucks and PayPal - creating their very first developer portal back in 2005. I wrote an open source e-commerce site for Microsoft that was demoed on stage by Steve Ballmer at Tech Ed, Microsoft’s biggest developer conference (now //Build). I've been a CTO 3 times and run multi-million dollar projects for Fortune 50 clients around the world. I had to learn how to ship software the hard way, but you don't!