On The Love Of Tres Leches
Someone has to find the best Tres Leches cake in the world. At the Buffer 2026 retreat, I decided it might as well be me, so I started an Instagram account to prove it. Abuelas of the world, watch out, because here I come.
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Peter's Travels: 2025 Year In Review
From hunting down the original Iskender Kebab in Bursa to galavanting through the Scottish Highlands taking full advantage of the right to roam, 2025 was a year of adventures across Europe. Here's the full story ...
The Clarity That Comes With Good Sleep
Good sleep is perhaps the most underrated advice I've ever seen in self-improvement posts and videos. Yet it is the most important in my opinion. Here is why I think that's the case.
Kubernetes Probes are Awesome (until they aren't)
Many teams get excited about including kubernetes probes in their deployments. However, misconfigured probes can take a bad situation and make it disastrous! In this post, I share some hard-learnt lessons they don't say in the docs.
Don't Guess What The Problem Is
When things go wrong in production, it’s easy to fall into the trap of guessing! I’ve been there too. But guessing can lead to wasted effort, worse technical debt, and more confusion. In this post, I share what I learnt to do instead!
[Joke] How To Travel To A Programming Language
Someone has to answer the tough questions ...
Buffer's Engineering Team Has a New Superpower 🦸
Buffer’s engineers were losing time battling staging conflicts. Read more to understand how we addressed this in Buffer's Engineering team.
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