On making errors, and making errors rarer.
This post is part of the Content Club, organized by  Bryan Ross . The theme for November 2025 is "Getting the balance right: golden paths versus golden cages". Links to other posts in this group are at the end of this post. Platform Engineering is a field that
In my senior year of high school I take an independent study program, an English class dedicated to a yearlong, student-led, self-defined project. For my project, I construct a language (a " conlang "), producing a descriptive grammar and vocabulary more than a hundred pages long. Part of
I started writing the Rarefied Err newsletter one year ago, and since then I’ve published … one post. One and done. What happened? In this post I’ll share what I’ve learned about why I haven’t written more, and I’ll let
This post is part of the Content Club, organized by Bryan Ross . The theme for February 2025 is "Team Topologies in the Real World". Links to other posts in this group are at the end of this post. I consider myself a big fan of the book Team
For the last eight years I've set myself a reading goal of twelve books a year. I started this practice the year after I dropped out of a humanities graduate program - I was a voracious reader as a kid, and was reading a ton in graduate school, and
As an undergraduate linguistics major in New Mexico, I was exposed to not only the languages of present-day America but also to lots of indigenous scholarship and writing on those languages. Some of the most eye-opening, "aha" moments of my college career came from those classes.
During KubeCon week last week I wrote and published four blog posts. If you count this one, written and published on the following Monday, I've published five blog posts in seven days (Tuesday through Monday). Now, while there's nothing particularly impressive about that (none of the
Yesterday I attended a KubeCon panel that ended up being one of my favorite KubeCon sessions of the week: "Platform Engineering In Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel". Moderated by Paula Kennedy (Syntasso), with panelists Chris Plank (NatWest Bank), Suhail Patel (Monzo), Jinhong Brejnholt (Saxo Bank), and Rachael Wonnacott
The idea of treating engineering platforms as products has been getting a lot of traction recently. We're thinking in terms of "platform-as-a-product", we're doing user research and user interviews, we're hiring platform product managers, we're doing A/
I'm at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon NA this week, and attended the co-located Platform Engineering Day event yesterday. One of the talks there was given by my friend Atulpriya Sharma (GitHub: @techmaharaj ), on the topic "Are you really ready to adopt a platform?" (materials are here - thank
I posted a "Hello World" on this blog eighteen months ago (almost exactly). I'm finally ready to post a sequel. "Write more" and "write in public" have been goals of mine for a long time. I've tinkered with my blog,
Welcome to the first issue in a several-part series on building a command-line interface (CLI) tool for an internal platform. This is something I've been working on for the better part of a year now, and in speaking to my peers in industry (especially within the
Hi, I’m Matt. Welcome to this new little corner of the internet that I’m carving out for myself. I’m a principal data engineer at a tech company in Kansas City. I joined eight years ago when we were a small scrappy startup, and we&
Hello, world! More to come here shortly, stay tuned. ✍️ This post originally appeared on my old GitHub Pages blog - it was migrated here to my new website in May 2025.