Build fluency for engineering leadership. Master phrases for 1-on-1s, architecture review boards, incident postmortems, and team coaching.
Practice Roleplays“How are you feeling about your workload this sprint? Is anything blocking your flow?”
Checking in on burnout
“To reach the Senior Engineer level, I'd like to see you take more ownership of cross-team architecture decisions.”
Career pathing
“We selected event-driven architecture here to decouple the payment service and prevent cascading failures.”
Defending architectural patterns
“tech debt”
Implied cost of future refactoring caused by choosing easy solutions now
/tek det/
“decoupling”
Separating system components so they operate independently
/dee-KUP-ling/
| Word | ❌ Common Error | ✅ Correct | Tip |
|---|---|---|---|
| architecture | ar-chi-TEK-chure | AR-kuh-tek-cher | First syllable 'AR-kuh' with a hard 'k' sound. |
“I suggested him to change the code.”
“I suggested that he change the code.”
Why: 'Suggest' is followed by a clause or gerund, not object + infinitive.
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