Product engineer. Founder of https://xitter.cf/t.co/HSlvPo0nSf (acquired by AWS, relaunched as Infra Composer). Building https://xitter.cf/t.co/JvYDt3SJWc to help platform engineers move faster, safely.

Portland, OR
Joined February 2010
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Announcing #DevGuild: Write-Only Code Summit. On May 7, we're bringing together 200 technical founders and infrastructure leaders for a day of talks, panels, and closed roundtables on how to build and lead in this new era. 🚨 Early bird pricing ends April 7: luma.com/write-only-code-sum…
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We're hiring a Head of Engineering at @DuckbillHQ. We think the entire cloud cost management industry is solving the wrong problem. While everyone else is building tools for making bills smaller for startups, we're building a data platform for making them more predictable and less complex across an entire enterprise. Given we're early days, this is a builder role. You'll be in the code every day and setting the pace for the team. You'll be leading the team on foundational decisions from day one. The engineering problems are interesting. We're processing hundreds of millions of rows of billing data per customer per month. We're modeling pricing schemes and contract structures for every provider we support. The dimensionality reaches into the thousands of columns when you combine provider billing data with customer data and the datasets hit terabytes easily. The customer needs to not just query this data, but modify it too--faster than a traditional data pipeline allows. We're ~12 people, based in SF, well-funded through revenue and our investors, and have the kind of customer list and brand awareness most seed-stage companies spend years trying to build. Feel free to DM me. Job post and more details about our point of view are linked below.
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AWS finally talked about the Oct. 20th outage and holy shit, @QuinnyPig was right the whole time AWS uses DNS (route53) as a database, creating a txt record to indicate which node holds the lock while it updates the public DNS records for the entire region Total Corey Victory
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For anyone at @KubeCon_ next week, we'll be hosting beers on the 11th. Find the details at redmonk.com/event/redmonk-be…, and we hope to see you there!
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🪔 Happy Diwali 🪔
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a thread of harsh truths to vaccinate you against chatgpt psychosis 1. AI will not make you more interesting. AI-generated words may be helpful to you in your own research. Nobody else is interested in reading them. Assume that nothing written by AI is worth publishing. AI will not earn anyone’s respect.
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Wow, vaultwarden now supports using @ApacheOpenDAL for file persistence!
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Software-career thought leaders will warn you against taking an “off-ramp” from engineering. What they don't tell you is that eventually, the off-ramp comes for all of us. Take the off-ramp before it takes you. A letter to my stupid 22-year-old self: newsletter.goodtechthings.co…
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LOVE seeing teams like @AirbnbEng invest in meaningful software apprenticeship programs. "Candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and unconventional paths are encouraged to apply." - sounds like @cloudchallenges champions to me! careers.airbnb.com/connect-e…
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I find it very frustrating that IPv4 on AWS costs big $$$ (NAT and IP addresses), but building an IPv6-only VPC is practically impossible. Especially because it's AWS service endpoints that require IPv4. #awswishlist: native IPv6 support for all AWS services - lead by example!
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This blog: 1) is incredibly good 2) implies a level of necessary rigor to working with gen AI assistants that I fear almost nobody is taking seriously
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Thrilled to team up with @editingemily here. Having been on both sides of this (tech creator and technical marketer), there's a huge need for someone to step in and do performance influencer marketing as a service. Growth folks in tech, feel free to reach out for a demo.
✨ I didn't plan on founding a startup this year, but @forrestbrazeal⁩ and I see a need we can't ignore. Introducing Freeman and Forrest — a company dedicated to helping tech creators get paid what they're worth. freemanandforrest.com
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This post from @asmartbear is 100% correct: longform.asmartbear.com/avoi…
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🚀 Excited about this launch! AWS Application Composer is now seamlessly integrated into the #AWS #CloudFormation console. Visualize your templates and leverage Application Composer's powerful authoring features. 🙌 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
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If you’re new to the industry and unsure of whether you have good management above you, ask yourself: “Do they work to make my and my colleagues’ jobs enjoyable?” You’ll know the answer to this, even if you’re new to the field.
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For most of my career, I have been on call for the systems I built. This experience forged my strong affinity for technologies that have less runtime complexity. That's why I'm so into serverless. Assuming that complexity cannot be destroyed and can only be moved around. I much prefer technologies with less operational complexity (think patching AMIs, updating RDS versions, replacing failed nodes, etc.), even if it comes at the expense of higher author-time complexity. That's why I prefer DynamoDB over RDS. Even though DynamoDB is rather restrictive and makes many things hard to implement. That's why I prefer Lambda over running containers. Even though running applications in containers still provides a better developer experience. My choices are not absolute. It always depends on the context. And what I'd do myself is often different from what I'd advise my clients. Because they have different skill sets and must operate within some time and budget constraints. But if it's a system that I need to maintain, then there must be a lot of upside to tip me over the fence. Of course, your mileage might differ, but that's just me.
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I am hanging out at @socallinuxexpo today in Pasadena! Come say hi, and then stay for a highly ridiculous musical show tonight at 6:30 PM.
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