Thoughts on Software and Technology
One of the nice side effects of cloud services is that they enable engineering teams to provision their own infrastructure without having to go through a gatekeeper. This could be seen as an instance of the general trend towards shifting left: Enabling teams to spin up infrastructure according to their needs removes friction from the... Continue Reading →
Most people perceive salary negotiation as an unpleasant activity. One particular issue with the salary negotiation process that has been observed is, that candidates unable to approach a negotiation from a position of strength are at a disadvantage. While I am not sure by how much this moves the needle against people already in a... Continue Reading →
In this article, I want to explore a strategy of dependency management that enables transitive dependencies to evolve independently and to disentangle the gnarly problem of conflicting transitive dependencies. Dependency hell is a real place. The times I am struggling trying to find a matching set of dependencies are moments in which I ask myself... Continue Reading →
Something that has always bugged me about the current direction of the Continous Integration (CI) ecosystem is the reliance on centralized tools. The promise is to make the configuration simple. I would claim that even simple build scripts quickly fall victim to the old bash-script death spiral. There must be a better way! Certainly, there... Continue Reading →
The Solution Space 