Mach 2.0 at Scale - Nickolas Means

When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time, he set off a race around the world to do the same thing with a plane full of paying passengers. The US, Russia, UK, and France all wanted a piece of the inevitable fortune to be made building aircraft to cross oceans faster than sound itself. In the end, though, only one design flew passengers in significant numbers, the Anglo-French Concorde. Why? Let’s figure out what allowed the British and French to succeed where others failed. Along the way, we’ll learn a little about compromise and constraints and a lot about success itself. Nickolas Means Nickolas Means loves nothing more than a story of engineering triumph (except maybe a story of engineering disaster). When he's not stuck in a Wikipedia loop reading about plane crashes, he spends his days as a Director of Engineering at GitHub. He works remotely from Austin, TX, and spends most of his spare time hanging out with his wife and kids, going for a run, or trying to brew the perfect cup of coffee.