Derrek Bertrand

Somewhere in vaguely historic China, on a mountain to the west, there lives an ogre who brews an elixir. It is said that if you drink the elixir you can instantly become an expert in anything you desire.

When running tests and deployments in CI, we do not want to test and deploy projects that were not affected by code changes. Here we discuss how to handle that with a Makefile.

Does a user need to access data from 5+ years ago? For most stores / tables and most organizations the answer is “no”. For most business software, we are managing the day-to-day. We will not be running reports over the past half decade or accessing a delivery route from 2018. For these cases, we denormalize and purge.

There are many successful remote-first tech companies - GitLab, Zapier and Stripe for example. So why do Goldman Sachs and Salesforce insist that remote doesn’t work? Simple. They just can’t handle it.

The new hotness right now is Large Language Models (LLM), and they are apparently coming for your cushy tech job. Let’s play with that idea for a second.

It’s 10PM on a Saturday and your application is unresponsive. Do you know where your engineers are?