Learn Real World Engineering skills through Real World projects
On weekends and early mornings, I try to work with new tech as it comes out. This past week, it was PRDs for genetic programming and Railway for hosting the apps. The project is relatively simple and has been on my Google Keep list for at least a year. A calculator that takes in the [ ]
I went to Kubecon 2025 this year, over in Atlanta. The main talks I attended were on Backstage and Developer Experience, as well as AI. As everywhere else, AI was a popular topic at the conference. This took place on nearly every level of the platform. Coding Agents, SRE tooling, FinOps, and how to host [ ]
Interviewing is an exercise of story telling, hopefully the stories you tell are true. Not everyone is born with the gift of story telling but it is something that can be practiced and improved. After going through interviews during Q1 of this year here are some interview questions that came up frequently. I found it [ ]
It’s the start of the second quarter of the year. You have some education budget that was refreshed and some companies goals you set. Know is the time to start planning out how you are going to use the budget for the year so that you can get the most out of it. If you [ ]
You are building out your brand new app. It s coming to life right before your eyes. It s going to make you a billion dollars, until one of your API keys gets leaked. Someone takes it because it was either logged to the console or you committed it to git publicly. Here s how you can avoid [ ]
Introducing vibe checks. Helpful prompts to save your wallet while vibe coding by showing which external services you are using and how to enforce billing limits and alerts. In any project you need to be mindful of your spend. This is true for code that you haven’t written completely by yourself, whether through vibe coding [ ]
It s the end of December, either the you are out of office for the holidays or you are the last remaining guard holding down the fort. Either way it s a great time to sneak in some learning, tinkering or those pesky tech debt fixes that you haven t been able to yet. I particularly like this [ ]
It’s almost the end of the year, and you still have some of that continuing education budget you haven’t used yet. If you don’t know what you want I’d suggest something a little off the beaten path this year. Look into improving your writing skills or asking for some time and credits for playing with [ ]
What is a Binary Tree A binary tree is a data structure that consists of nodes in a tree. Each node has three attributes: a value and a left and right child node. As simple binary tree would look like the following: What is a Binary Search Tree A binary search tree is a data [ ]
Keeping up with interview prep is hard over time. If we are being honest we know that the interviews that a majority of our industry provides are nothing like our day jobs. But in order to secure most of the high paying jobs in our industry you must go through a few rounds of programming [ ]