Context At a previous job, we built a service we called our operations platform. Its aim was to unify the SaaS tooling used by our ops teams with dom...
I noticed a pattern when I join a new company. I'm being onboarded, someone is explaining their systems to me, and they make a joke about how it's un...
Let's talk about cardinality. Can we talk about cardinality please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about cardinality with you all day. In maths, cardi...
Lockfiles are common in many dependency management systems today — package-lock.json, composer.lock, and so on. We often don't think much about the...
Percentiles are a statistics concept, but you often see them mentioned in software engineering. Like this, this, and this. If you're wondering what t...
I've worked with a couple of languages, but it was in JavaScript that I first noticed the pattern of...
If you're like me, you've heard a lot of people say things like "you shouldn't mutate state!" and tal...
