When PRDs Accidentally Invent Architecture

Recently I was in a discussion about what looked like a very simple feature.

“We just need to send an email when something fails.”

Fine.

Add some categories. …

Installing a Specific Version of Node in a Nix Flake

Recently, I adopted nix as my go-to solution for managing all kinds of settings. I even rewrote all of my dotfiles using nix. You can find it here.

One of the …

Managing Github With Terraform and Saml Without Github Enterprise

Summary

At Hippo, we have dozens of engineers across teams, with very different access patterns. Managing this gets very complicated, very fast.

Also, we have …

Make Integration Testing Fun Again

At Hippo Insurance, we build an integration testing framework/infrastructure that makes writing integration tests a no-brainer and super productive (and fun). …

The Hippo Paas

At Hippo Insurance, we built a platform as a service that allows engineers to add/mutate service-infrastructure simple and engineer-friendly.

Before I talk …

Onboarding New Engineers My Recipe

a recipe to onboard new engineers to the team

Analyzing Your Aws Api Calls for Fun and Profit (And Security)

AWS has a very powerful API. With time, as the organization grows, you query that API quite a bit.

At [Globality])(https://www.globality.com), we query that API …

Our flexible cluster solution - How we run micro-services efficiently

How we run spot instances in production

1:1 Question: What Is Your Stress Level since we last met?

One of the most effective tools in your toolbox as a manager is the 1:1 meeting. I have 1:1 with every member of my staff on a weekly basis. It’s a great …

On Culture

I see a lot of people talking about “culture fit”. I wanted to spend some time telling you what it means to me.

First, let’s establish the …

Using Bots to Solve Developer Drudgery

Scaling an engineering organization has a lot of moving parts. One of the parts we discuss rarely is reducing friction and reducing time spent on menial tasks …

Breaking the Terraform Monolith - Silos of Infrastructure

At Globality we have about 120K lines of Terraform configuration that we use to manage our infrastructure. We manage everything we can this way. AWS, GitHub, …

Updating Files With the Githup Api - Python

One of the features we have at Globality is to update build/setting files on all of our projects using the Github API.

We use that when we generate a new build …

Bike Commuting in the Bay Area and beyond - Tips/Tricks and More

Bike commuting is great for many reasons, you stay healthy and fit, you get to enjoy time outside and you don’t waste your life away inside a car in …

Installing Python 3.7 on OSX

HOW TO post on installing and using python 3.7 on OSX

Generating CI Configurations at Scale

Intro

You often hear about scale issues when discussing capacity, traffic, users and other resource related topics and issues. However, scale is often in the …

Insert a Line for Every File in a Directory

I recently imported this entire blog from Wordpress to Hugo.

The move itself was smooth and there are a million blog posts out there explaining exactly how to …