Pipelines: The Forgotten SLO
When talking about SLOs, uptime and latency get all the attention. But there are many other kinds of SLI that we don't pay enough attention to.
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Why merge queues?
You might have heard of merge queues. You might even have used one at work. If so, you might even hate them. But if you've never used them before, how do you decide if your engineering team would bene
How friendly are your rate limits?
Comparing two rate limiting strategies, one that’s (almost) pleasant to work with, another that is very much not.
Tech interviewing will always be broken
Technical interviews have changed a lot over the years. Various kinds of interviews have drawn various kinds of complaint. We can make it better, but it'll still always be a bit broken.
How much code *should* you review?
There's no escaping it, AI is writing a lot of code. Some great, some needing human intervention. But how should we focus our review efforts to catch the bugs without getting overwhelmed?
Approving deployments with GitHub Actions
Exploring some new technologies and techniques being used at my new job
Rehousing my blog
I've been dissatisfied with SubStack for a little while, and finally got my act together to move to a self-hosted site where I have more control.
Is GitHub getting less reliable?
It's been a bad couple of weeks for GitHub reliability, but how does this compare to their previous performance? I pulled some data from their status page to find out.
Plur1bus: accidental AI allegory
Is Plur1bus secretly about AI? Officially, no, but that didn't stop me seeing shadows of GPUs in almost every scene.
Yes, you should still learn to code
Join me as I recount a recent experience with an enthusiastic but wrong LLM and what I had to do to dig out of the hole.