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Communication & influence · Disagreeing well

In a design review, a well-respected senior engineer whose judgment the whole team trusts advocates an approach you believe is a mistake. How do you push back in the room without either capitulating or torching the relationship?

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First I make sure I actually understand their proposal — I play it back: 'so you'd put the queue between the two services to absorb the burst, and accept eventual consistency on the read side?…

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