While I’ve done a lot of things that I now regret, I can say that I’ve been somewhat blessed to have learned from some of my mistakes.  So please believe that this advice comes from sad experience and that I’m just trying to help some folks avoid the career limiting moves that I have made […]

I can't tell you what makes a senior developer but I can tell you what separates a lot of juniors from the seniors.

Presently sponsored by: Epsagon, which provides visibility and visualization for serverless applications. Using distributed tracing and AI technologies, you can troubleshoot issues with speed, understand performance bottlenecks, and optimize your latency and costs. Hi, welcome to another weekly update! Welcome Epsagon as our sponsor for June! I love writing and sharing everything I learn, but for a very long time I had to fund that habit using ads that get in the way of your viewing experience. Which is wh[...]

Presently sponsored by: Epsagon, which provides visibility and visualization for serverless applications. Using distributed tracing and AI technologies, you can troubleshoot issues with speed, understand performance bottlenecks, and optimize your latency and costs. After watching the talks at Monitorama for a few years, I finally have the chance to attend this year and share my insights on serverless observability on Wednesday. Day 1 was great (despite my massive jet lag!), and the talks were mostly focuse[...]

Presently sponsored by: Epsagon, which provides visibility and visualization for serverless applications. Using distributed tracing and AI technologies, you can troubleshoot issues with speed, understand performance bottlenecks, and optimize your latency and costs. Hello, just a quick note to tell you that recording of my talk at the recent AWS User Group meetup is now live! In this talk, I introduced the core concepts of chaos engineering, and the challenges that the Serverless paradigm brings to the exis[...]