Sleep in late. No more traffic. Save money by cooking your lunches at home. No more pants! Working remotely sounds pretty great, but it’s not for everyone.There are quite a few nuances to working remotely that you don't discover until you actually start doing it. Depending on your company culture and the processes in place, issues might arise that are either detrimental to your success or mitigated well. I’ve had the privilege of working from home for 4 years now.

Swapping out the database layer of an application is rarely easy. It’s even less easy when you’re also changing the storage paradigm (say, from a document database to a relational database). It’s even less easy when you run into peripheral snags. This post is a retrospective on one team’s adventures in swapping out the database layer of an application, including several lessons learned.

The last half of 2019 brought some big changes for us at Digital Solutions: We had a team member leave, and we also saw substantial growth. That meant needing to hire four new folks, taking our team of six to ten. As a small, bootstrapped company without a dedicated hiring manager, we have to prioritize our hiring and make room for it in our daily work; at the same time, our size gives us a lot of freedom to experiment with our hiring practices.