Strategic Tech
MARCH 16, 2021
In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.
Honeycomb
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
For personal reasons, I decided to move on from a Staff “Engineer” position* for something possibly closer to operations and incident handling. It didn’t name any specific technology, nor did it necessarily ask for any specific prior titles or education. I found myself looking at Honeycomb’s job ad for their first SRE position.
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CircleCI
MAY 26, 2020
Before joining CircleCI, my years of experience led me to believe that I was an engineer with a firm understanding of the technical aspects of the craft, as well as what is considered good practice. It might only partially implement a feature (protected by feature flags or just not user-accessible), get reviewed, and get merged.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. no oversharing or prying). A small change with ripple effects. No Q4 code freezes for us.
Honeycomb
JANUARY 5, 2021
In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. A better tech industry is better for supporting this complex, interdependent society we live in. no oversharing or prying). A small change with ripple effects. No Q4 code freezes for us.
LeanEssays
JULY 14, 2019
He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. What current – and future – technologies can we use to lower their costs?
LaunchDarkly
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
This still technically runs but it’s on its way out. There’s just a lot of lack of diligence, is what I’d call it, in our services. My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? They would come through, kill some nodes.
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