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Someone, somewhere, is the person who pressed go on that software update. And right now they know exactly what they did and what it has done. And as someone who knows that sinking feeling when you realise you’ve screwed up at work, I cannot imagine the state of them right now. Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) [ ]
This is my interview with Dr. Milan Milanovic originally published on his newsletter Tech World With Milan where we discussed Shopify architecture, tech stack, testing, culture, and more. 1. Who is Oleksiy? I have spent most of my career in technical operations (system administration, later called DevOps, nowadays encompassed by platform engineering and SRE disciplines). Along the way, [ ]
Today was my last day at Elastic. After 4.5 years with the company and almost 9 years with the Swiftype (and later Enterprise Search) team, I have decided to move on and see what else is out there. I wanted to use this post to clarify the reasoning behind the decision because a lot of [ ]
This article has been originally posted on Swiftype Engineering blog. For any modern technology company, a comprehensive application test suite is an absolute necessity. Automated testing suites allow developers to move faster while avoiding any loss of code quality or system stability. Software development has seen great benefit come from the adoption of automated testing frameworks [ ]
Based on my experience, just a decade ago not many people within the Silicon Valley startup community considered compliance an important stepping stone in a company’s development roadmap. And when it came to compliance for startups, it was nearly synonymous with PCI/DSS — mandatory certification used by the credit card industry. Over the last few [ ]
Following the very ambitious and successful 2016 challenge, I have decided to keep the goal at the same level of 36 books for 2017 to prove to myself that it is sustainable and wasn’t a one-off success. Surprising myself, I have crushed the goal and finished 39 books this year. Below is summary of the best [ ]
I’ve planned to read 36 books in 2016 and managed to hit that number a few hours before the NY! The best of those 36 books are listed below. Business, Management and Leadership Considering the new role I’ve started in January 2016 (first-time CTO of a growing startup company), my reading last year was heavily [ ]
About 6 years ago (feels like an eternity in Rails world) working at Scribd I ve started working on porting our codebase from some old version or Rails to a slightly newer one. That s when I realized, that there wasn t a ruby gem to help us manage MySQL connections for our vertically sharded databases (different models [ ]
As a leader of a technical operations team I often have to work on technical operations engineer hiring. This process involves a lot of interviews with candidates and during those interviews along with many challenging practical questions I really love to ask questions like What are the most important resources you think an Operations Engineer [ ]
As you may have heard, last January I have joined Swiftype an early stage startup focused on changing local site search for the better. It has been a blast for the past 8 months, we have done a lot of interesting things to make our infrastructure more stable and performant, immensely increased visibility into [ ]