The spring issue
Every release gets the same editorial treatment — a cover you would read in a waiting room, and a contents list that tells you why.
Shipwright
Volume 07 · Issue 02 · Spring 2026
The Throughput Issue
The quarterly for engineering leaders
Contents
Cover story
Why the teams that ship weekly have stopped asking how fast they deploy and started asking how small a change can be.
By Priya Ramanathan
Platform
A retrospective on the nine-month project that cut cold starts by 74% and changed how we think about warmups.
By Miguel Santos
Field notes
The rituals, tools, and meeting schedules of the most productive engineers at 12 different companies, in their own words.
By Jamie O'Connor
Practice
A step-by-step guide to running a postmortem where the strongest learners are the ones who were closest to the outage.
By Yuki Tanaka
Essay
A defense of the five-line change and the engineers who refuse to batch their work for a better-looking diff.
By Dov Friedman
Column
A candid review of three years of flag sprawl, the cleanup that followed, and the conventions we settled on.
By Arya Singh