devops Deep Skills The ability to drill down into the minute details and still understand how they impact the whole is, in my estimation, one of the greatest skills that an engineer can have regardless of engineering specialty.
cloud Featured What Comes After the Cloud? There's nothing wrong with the cloud, per se, but there's certainly enough to be unhappy about that might make someone contemplate the next move for their architecture.
jobs Total Compensation Is A Lie There’s been a trend emerging in the job market that is actively hurting job seekers in ways that may not be immediately noticable.
open source You Don’t Deserve Free Software This is going to be short, but it’s something that I have been seeing in increasing frequency and I’m sick and tired of it.
jobs 6 Pros and Cons of Working at a Large Tech Company The good and bad of tech positions at big firms
database 7 Database Concepts You Should Know About There’s a lot to know about databases, so let's start with the basics
development My Code Stinks and That's OK An impassioned defense of “code smells” and why tech bloggers have gone insane
development 4 Ways to Break Out of That Slump We get stuck in ruts, the developer’s version of the yips, and sometimes we don’t know how to get out. Here’s four ideas on things you can do to try and get out and grow as a developer.
development Hypocritical Gophers Go is the COVID-19 of languages; it spread really fast, it didn’t seem that bad at first, but it sucks and I hate it.
development 5 (More) Rules of Code Five more things that make your life as a developer easier, saner, and overall more enjoyable
development 9 Things Every Developer Should Do A random guy on the internet tells you 9 more things loosely related to development
development 10 Things Every Developer Should Learn Or, “some guy on the internet tells you how to be a better developer”
development Agile/Scrum Is Bullshit While the original intent for the agile methodology might have been good the implementations we see today are far from productive.
development Never Lose Sight of What You Do We tend to think in closed circles when it comes to who will consume our product and what kind of impact that has on the rest of the “food chain”, but maybe we’re wrong for limiting our thinking like that.
