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What makes a good API?
There’s a ton of thoughts and written material about writing good public API’s for things like REST or RPC but I feel like the amount of times I am…
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Anton Kropp
Musings about "On Call"
In the cloud enabled world where everything runs 24/7 someone behind the scenes is usually on the hook to make sure that when things break off hours…
Challenges with data
Modeling is hard
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Tools Matter
I feel like I’ve written about this before, but it continues to come up in my career.
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Thoughts on monorepos
For the past year I’ve been working at an organization that structures all their code in monorepos.
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Infra graphs with neo4j
I spent some time recently mucking around with neo4j attempting to model infrastructure, incidents, teams, users, etc.
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8 months of go
For the past 8 months I’ve primarily been writing in go.
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Productionalizing ECS
This post was originally posted on my company’s engineering blog here: http://engineering.curalate.com/2018/05/16/productionalizing-ecs.html
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AETR an open source workflow engine
For the past several years I’ve been thinking about the idea of an open source workflow execution engine.
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Chaos monkey for docker
I work at a mostly AWS shop, and while we still have services on raw EC2, nearly all of our new development is on Amazon ECS in docker.
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Tracking batch queue fanouts
Edit: This code now exists at https://github.com/paradoxical-io/carlyle
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Functors in scala
A coworker of mine and I frequently talk about higher kinded types, category theory, and lament about the lack of unified types in scala: namely…
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