Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has been well publicized, if you are not up to date as of the end of Nov 2022, check out any major news source. Here is a good example: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-elon-musk-timeline-what-happened-so-far-rcna57532 . In this post I am going to explain why I think Elon is doing what…

Looks like with the FTX downfall people are starting to ask good questions about the crypto space. A bunch of people lost their money. What is worse is a bunch of smart people lost their money by keeping them in a centralized institution in a supposedly de-centralized space. We have…

Tech companies of all sizes have been using titles creatively for years. More senior titles make up for some compensation gaps and can win in a talent war. They might also signal that you are future proofing someone’s career at your company. …

Over the years I have seen many engineering teams preach “API First Development”. The approach is well documented and means exactly what you’d imagine — the engineering team is focused on defining the Application Programming Interface first. The API discussed is often the contract between the service and mobile or…

This year I have been working on the ConfigSync project at Google. The concept of syncing a git repository for a Kubernetes cluster has been around forever, for instance git-sync v2.0 was published in 2016. What is the draw of using git as the source of truth while it often…

When drafting a product roadmap, the tension between the vision and the specific customers often comes into play. Founders and product leaders love to talk about the grand vision and seeing the future from the beginning. …

Whenever you talk to a person who works or found a startup they are talking about innovation. Having spent the last 15 years in Enterprise SaaS I started wondering how innovative are we in technology today? When I think about monumental technological breakthroughs, I think about the invention of the…

I went through most of my career without a roadmap. I got lucky because a lot of the things worked out: some of it was accidental, some of it was great mentorship. Some of it were setbacks that I could have probably avoided. Over 24 years of doing software development…

After being involved in the Kubernetes project for about a year I have had some interesting reflections about the configuration and infrastructure space. I have talked to a few Platform engineers and have gained some interesting insights into how these organizations operate at scale. My observation is that in most…