If you work in even a medium sized organisation, you’ve probably heard the term “kubernetes cluster” thrown around. Invariably, you’ll have more than one. But at some point, someone will come along, likely a developer with a need, or a new project with big ideas, and boldly proclaim “We need…

Large enterprises never have just one or two data sources. It’s always tens or hundreds of places they need to pull data from, if not thousands. What may have started out as a couple of shell scripts in the early days of a company, may have turned into a crontab…

I’ve been working in software development since 2015, and have worked with lots of teams, and all of them have gone through phases of what they called “agile” at one point. But the experiences of this process have varied wildly, and I’ve rarely seen teams that would consider themselves hyper-productive…

Why Estimates, Targets, and Commitments. We’re all bad at estimating Agile business, rigid estimates An estimate comes with uncertainty I’ve been on a few projects that came in on time, and far more that didn’t. When I reflect critically on this, I’ve definitely made my fair share of mistakes, but…

I recently did a deep dive on computer networking and the internet, and I found some of these concepts to be really interesting. If you’ve been a developer for a while, but never really looked into the networking stack, I’d really encourage you to spend a little time hoking around…

Motivations & Goals Progress thus far What I found to be useful techniques for progress Future plans Motivations and Goals I’m getting older. Fast approaching the 30 milestone — 30 years old, and about 30 kg heavier than I was at the start of my twenties 😂. …

Why split tables date sharded tables partitioned tables when to use which what about clustering? When database tables become very large, querying them eventually leads to one of 2 problems — it becomes quite difficult, as your database has a lot of data to scan and aggregate, or if you…

Some backstory of my dev experience Patterns I noticed in my software Steps to improve Robert Martin’s Clean Code Martin Fowler’s Refactoring I entered software engineering in a less common fashion, I started working in the industry as a data analyst writing SQL. After 4 months on the job, I…

What’s the cloud confusion? What’s cloud-native? Which definition should your company aim towards? A few years ago, I was getting some help from a mentor who worked in one of my company’s infrastructure teams, around some work we were doing on our on-premise private cloud. …