My unique views on programming, startups, technology, and exercising
This is the second entry in a series (prior entry here) explaining how you can use Cloud Sidecar to take your software and run it multiple clouds with very little code change. What is Cloud Sidecar? It is an application that runs next to your software as a sidecar, intercepts cloud API requests, and converts [ ]
This is an entry in a series explaining how you can use Cloud Sidecar to take your software and run it multiple clouds with very little code change. What is Cloud Sidecar? It is an application that runs next to your software as a sidecar, intercepts cloud API requests, and converts the API calls to [ ]
After almost seven years at my most recent job, I decided it was time to move on. I have over ten years experience and the past few years I ve had a very senior role with the fancy title of Principal Engineer (whether I deserved that title is a different story). There are many stories about [ ]
The other week I spent some time visiting friends in San Francisco. I ve been going to SF on and off every year for about ten years now. However on this journey, the weirdness of the city appeared to be at a whole new level. I believe that San Francisco is in a financial and social [ ]
There is a bad trend with some popular frameworks. Every now and then your code will throw an exception. Typically, you look through the stack trace and fix the bug. But on occasion the exception is from within the framework. You see absolutely nothing in the stack trace that refers to any of your code. [ ]
An often overlooked aspect when developing software is error messaging. If you are building a backend to be consumed programmatically, you want there to be a code or some easy way to parse an error without having to actually match an entire error message. For front ends, you need to have a nice centralized place [ ]
Testing is a very contentious subject. Some people hate it with a vengeance, thinking it is a waste of time for engineers to write and conduct tests. Others think of it as a religious requirement, TDD (test driven design) is their Messiah. There are dozens of different test frameworks per stack and several types of [ ]
Boarding a plane is such a weird experience. I was recently on a flight just noticing the mayhem going on. In the end it all works out, but it is so odd. People congregate around boarding lines regardless of whether they are to board first or last. Some people randomly stand between the plane and [ ]
My coworker Ben requested more gym blog entries. He said he has had enough of the tech and startup BS. So here it is Ben, a gym story from my past. It was about 09 and since I lived by Columbus Circle I was a member of Gold s gym in Hell s Kitchen. It was a [ ]
Recently at work we had a founders award to reward individuals that have made a founders level contribution to the company. This award is not merely for top performers but for people who make such a great impact on the company that the company would not be the same without them. These are people who [ ]