Welcome to my blog on software, cloud, microservices, programming and other topics of interest to me.
Building a Quarkus AWS Lambda for API Gateway
February 25, 2025
I recently set out to build an AWS Lambda function deployed behind an API Gateway...
The Coding Interview: Why They Don’t Tell the Whole Story
October 09, 2024
We’ve all been there: staring at an online code editor, heart hammering...
The Feedback Chasm
September 24, 2024
There's a _Feedback Chasm_ between our current role and any future one...
Shift Left Observability, more than Telemetry
August 29, 2024
In the last few years, _Shift Left Observability_ has risen to prominence...
The Perils of Premature Optimization
June 09, 2024
Throughout my career I've always heard colleagues talk of premature optimization being a bad thing...
Bug Reproducers in Open Source
February 19, 2024
I've worked in open source for over 15 years. During that time I've seen a lot of issue reports...