architecture

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…

Mar 4, 2024 •

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…

Feb 19, 2024

Challenges with data

Modeling is hard

Jan 30, 2024 •

I feel like I’ve written about this before, but it continues to come up in my career.

Jul 30, 2019 •

Thoughts on monorepos

For the past year I’ve been working at an organization that structures all their code in monorepos.

Jul 30, 2019 •

Infra graphs with neo4j

I spent some time recently mucking around with neo4j attempting to model infrastructure, incidents, teams, users, etc.

Apr 27, 2019 •

For the past 8 months I’ve primarily been writing in go.

Apr 2, 2019 •

Productionalizing ECS

This post was originally posted on my company’s engineering blog here: http://engineering.curalate.com/2018/05/16/productionalizing-ecs.html

May 17, 2018 •

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.

May 3, 2018 •

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.

Feb 17, 2018 •

Tracking batch queue fanouts

Edit: This code now exists at https://github.com/paradoxical-io/carlyle

Feb 15, 2018 •

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…

Nov 8, 2017 •

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