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Map of my mind: what seeds are growing, what trees are bearing fruit?

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Migrations considered helpful! And the tale of the Matryoshka Migration

Seven Matryoshki. Source: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle, WA Migrations are an art, not a science. A migration is a juggling act between breaking glass, keeping the lights on, and opening new doors. Migrations are the evolution of a system through incremental changes. Migrations are not limited to infrastructure; customer/product changes can be migrations too. The difference between a single…

Force multiplication

Two short stories of how getting things done can happen, when it’s not doing the things myself.

Heaps of work

noun (colloquial) A lot, a large amount Thanks a heap!

Ten years of deploying to production

Back in 2018, where I worked there was an operations team. “Ops”, we called them. In that decade, this company was behind the curve, but not far from typical. We were just starting to think about AWS. At the tail end of my time there, we were just starting to adopt AWS for some internal-only systems. But from what I’ve heard from friends who worked at more mature companies, it wasn’t uncommon in…

Thank you, Chad Baldwin!

Chad Baldwin made an excellent blog post about how to start a blog using GitHub pages.