The Invariant Is Hiding
Emily's platform team has a cost problem. They run thousands of workloads for application teams, and too much compute sits idle most of the day. Emily has a fairly obvious propo...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
Work is Just Other People
I found a pattern in myself. When work is going well, I do not talk about work. I talk about a bad joke, what someone cooked, how a Guinness pint tastes in different pubs, the t...
Where the Automation Has to Stop
I keep seeing people running multiple agents, perfect setups with multiple skills, operating a fleet of assignments. First of all, this looks like science fiction. Besides that,...
The Engineer in the Half-Space
You are reading interview loop feedback. You are going through the notes and it looks like neither a nogo nor a go. You are divided in your head too. Mitch does not seem to scor...
Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice
A few weeks ago we were discussing a Java component that starts a Spark cluster. Its job is mostly coordination. It starts the machinery, passes configuration around, waits for...