Posts
- Dec 24, 2024
How a single unconventional target - 'make Portal a destination team' - transformed a struggling, siloed team into one where engineers wanted to work.
- Dec 23, 2024
Store critical reminders in version control to avoid costly outages from expired API keys and certificates - a reliable, long-term solution that doesn't depend on third parties.
- Dec 23, 2024
NPM's new search algorithm returns either relevant but unmaintained packages, or popular but irrelevant ones. Neither is useful.
- Oct 29, 2024
Tightly coupling data lakes to operational databases creates a maintenance nightmare. Decoupling through an anti-corruption layer preserves agility without breaking downstream analytics.
- Apr 17, 2024
Prisma's popularity masks a dangerous design decision: undefined where clauses delete all rows. A cautionary tale about following the crowd without critical evaluation.