Sales Calculus, Part 1: Scaling
Using mathematics to find optimal scaling phases in the life of a sales organization
Is Technology Making Us More Productive?
A macroeconomic look at the productivity paradox
Virgo: a Graph-based Configuration Language
An alternative to YAML and JSON for data better modeled with a directed graph
The Negative Operating Cycle
An early Amazon operational strategy that helped turn the company into a cash machine.
Reproducibility in Practice
What does reproducibility mean in software engineering? Some practical ways to apply it to reduce bugs and increase velocity.
6 Open Source Licenses That You Shouldn't Use
A collection of interesting open source licenses I've come across.
An Alternative to the Dockerfile
A proof-of-concept docker image definition that can be natively built with the Docker CLI
The Heptagon of Configuration
A pattern I've observed in software configuration of complex systems and that explains why bash scripts are everywhere, even at Google.
Should Your Developers Work in the Cloud?
A look at the trade-offs with local development in a world that is increasingly cloud-native.
Fast Kubernetes Development with File Sync and Smart Rebuilds
What if I told you that you didn't have to rebuild your docker images every time you made a change? I'm happy to share with you a feature I added in the last release of skaffold that instantly syncs files to your running containers without any changes to your deployments
Offline is a Feature, Not a Product
Well, you can do development on an airplane.
Unit Testing with the Kubernetes Client Library
Mocking out the Kubernetes API