Everyone in software engineering should go through the process of installing an operating system from scratch I don’t care that … More
Tag: advice
Let’s talk cloud neutrality
Avoiding managed services, using Docker and running eight Mongo and twelve Kafka nodes does not make an application cloud neutral — it makes it costly to develop, Kafkaesque to architect, and impossible to maintain in production. You end up losing your weekends and quality time with family to DR exercises and production support.
On Maintaining Personal Brand as a Software Engineer
Man’s wisdom is in what he writes, good sense at the end of his pen; and using his pen … More
On apprenticeship
When I was a freshman at Clarkson in 1996 there was a work-study program they called Student-Directed Computing Services. It … More