The migration that took eighteen months
We moved forty services off one shared database. Here is what actually made it survivable, and the two things I would do differently.
Writing
Notes on building software, working with people, and the occasional tangent.
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Boring code is a gift to your future self
The cleverest code I ever wrote saved four lines and cost a colleague two hours. A short argument for writing the obvious thing.
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What I learned shutting down a company
Foundry died in 2021. Five years on, here is what I think actually went wrong — and what I got right without knowing it.
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