After a little over 11 years, it’s time for a much longed change: I’m leaving Google and I’m joining Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineer for Azure. These job changes are effective as of this week, but my family and I already moved from New York City to Redmond, WA about three weeks ago. Read on for a recap on my tenure at Google, the whys behind my departure, and how I ended up choosing the position in Microsoft Azure after mulling over offers from Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft.| Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
Our technical blog.| source.coveo.com
At Skyscanner, as in many organizations, teams tend to follow specific runbooks for individual failure modes. With modern and complex distributed systems, this has the downside of most of the errors being unknowns, which makes runbooks only partially applicable. After migrating our telemetry data to the OpenTelemetry standards at Skyscanner, we now have richer instrumentation and can rely on observability directly. As a result, we are ready to adopt a new observability mindset, which requires...| OpenTelemetry
Different hats that SRE's wear in the industry: Admin, Architect, Toolsmith, and firefighter| blog.alexewerlof.com
In all development teams, consistently delivering valuable work is a struggle. In data-focused teams, doubly so. The why can be subtle, and change from team to team.| Hugh F D Jackson
How to serial and parallel dependencies affect the total SLA| Medium
“When I’m asked how long it’ll take to implement Continuous Delivery, I used to say ‘it depends’. That’s a tough conversation starter for topics as broad as culture, engineering excellence, and urgency.| Steve Smith
Why does this book exist?| blog.alexewerlof.com
A walkthrough of the steps needed to process and validate payments from a web application on the Ethereum blockchain.| Code Capsule | A blog by Emmanuel Goossaert
