Good Architecture Often Loses to Friction.
Good architecture often loses to friction. We spent years making infrastructure cheap. AI is now removing another layer.
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What Is the Point of Open Source and Open Knowledge These Days?
I was working on something internally for Hippo the other day. Nothing groundbreaking, but very useful.
All of our internal apps use authentication the same …
Using Obsidian Templater to Record 1 on 1 meetings
Recently, I started using Obsidian again. I used it in the past but recently picked it up again after seeing quite a few people using it to take daily notes or …
Constraints Over Flexibility: Eight Years of Infrastructure Generation
[Strong Opinion]
Most internal platforms fail because they try to be too flexible. They expose arbitrary environment variables, inline overrides, escape …
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