The commitizen command line utility. #BlackLivesMatter - commitizen/cz-cli

Forgetting all we learned over the past 40 years, we tell ourselves that running microservices in containers provides all the security we need. We convince ourselves that operating behind a firewall protects us from harm. What could possibly go wrong?

For the past few years, I’ve been publishing a list of my favorite tech talks from the previous year. As always, the usual caveats apply…

Time and resources are limited. How we spend our time and apply our resources when developing software systems is possibly the most…

Mega list of 1 on 1 meeting questions compiled from a variety to sources - VGraupera/1on1-questions

For smaller teams, Kubernetes is usually the wrong solution: too complex, too complicated, and with too much work to keep it running.

Since the start of the year, I’ve been making mistakes with with my free time. I’ve been spending some of my leisure time on wrong activities.

Common Software Jams and Solutions

Comcast has cultivated an Architecture Guild, with the goal of "threading the needle" between obtaining advantageous critical mass around certain common technologies without undermining individual teams' agency.  The Architecture Guild is a grassroots framework…

Today, a software development company’s office reminds an amusement park, rather than a workplace. There is no need to visit Disneyland anymore, because ping-pong tables, golf fields, game consoles, and color chairs are spread across the office rooms, connected…

In this post, I will summarize my thoughts on what helps me survive the COVID crisis and stay sane. I hope this post will help you survive the current and future turbulent times. Expect some good books here.

We try to get rid of the complexity, control it, and seek simplicity. I think framing things that way is misguided. Complexity has to live somewhere. Embrace it

📙 Amazon Web Services — a practical guide. Contribute to open-guides/og-aws development by creating an account on GitHub.

Why are large enterprises like Google, Microsoft, and IBM massively donating to open source projects and opening their own code?

Google’s Spanner is a relational database with 99.999% availability which is roughly 5 mins a year. Spanner is a distributed system and…