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Justin Deal

Justin Deal is a Principal Engineer for Zapier who lives in St. Louis with his wife and two kids and dog. He spends his time thinking about software architecture, coding, and occasionally writing some music.

Justin's articles

Engineering insights
The CAP theorem for engineering teams
The CAP theorem informs how we build distributed systems by describing the trade-offs we must make when splitting a system into multiple distributed parts. The same holds true when splitting an engineering organization into multiple teams.
By Justin Deal

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10 min read
Productivity tips
There's no such thing as perfection—only tradeoffs
Why do we do all of the things we do? Because someone (hopefully us!) thinks each of those things is objectively good. And if each thing is good, then collectively, they are all…perfect? Unfortunately, the math doesn't work out that way.
By Justin Deal

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5 min read
Productivity tips
What rocket engineering can teach us about software engineering—and work in general
Our first Zapier company retreat of 2020 was in Orlando, which meant I got to spend my free day at the Kennedy Space Center.
By Justin Deal

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10 min read

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