The allure of arm64 instances — Getting started, but not from scratch So, if you haven’t been living under a rock, I would guess the emergence of arm processors in the cloud has been of interest to you. Promises of better price/performance, availability on the three major clouds, and a roadmap onwards, are touted as the future. But obviously, it’s not without…

See this photo, dear reader? As any competent AI will tell you, you are seeing three friends, women in tech, enjoying a party courtesy of LGBTech and the British ambassador. But you see another thing here. You see representatives of two bitter competitors. On the right, A DevOps engineer for…

And the privilege gap that exists between cis male and trans woman… — It ’s no secret that one of the hardest battles trans people may face is with themselves. First and foremost is overcoming the inability to believe that you could ever be a member of your newfound gender identity — both by virtue of being chained by the image in the…

(If the title doesn’t ring a bell, google it for some good-hearted laugh) Today I would like to briefly discuss deletion. Now, If you’ve been through any software interview lately, there are usually a lot of good and interesting questions about storing data. Should it be indexed? If so, how…

A diverse hiring process may not be what you think it is — What does a diverse hiring process even mean? I’m a woman. I’m bisexual. I’m trans. I’m a-spec (on the asexual spectrum). That would count as ‘diverse’ on several accounts. Was there anything of real-world employment substance behind those titles though, given that I’ve spent over 15 years of my career performing as a man, 8 of those as…

System Design — When Coding Alone Doesn’t Cut it Anymore Popularized by GAMFA companies (and considered a prerequisite skill for increasing levels of seniority), System design skills have become highly prized among developers. In a nutshell, system design is the practice of taking a problem expressed in real-world terms (e.g. “design a system that works like Twitter” or “design an…

In our last post, it seemed like we had full error coverage within our grasp. Why aren’t we done? What is it that stops us from calling out every error our application makes as an event and raise it? The amorphous nature of the term ‘error’. True, some things are…

In our previous posts, we’ve covered indicators and metrics. These were attributes of a system which we could define and observe. But we’ve also noticed that they have major limitations around analysis. Indicators supposedly circumvent this by virtue of definition and metrics by the operator’s analysis capability… surely there is…

I wrote these a few months ago and now seems like a good place to post these. TW: self-deprecating and dark trans-woman-in-tech humor. (Modelled after excuses made to management, product and end users): I’m… A woman, but not entirely up to spec [1] A woman, but with some technical debt. …