This is cross-posted from the Hardfin engineering blog.

As a small and growing team, we need to focus our operational efforts as much as possible. Using Tailscale as our VPN is very much aligned with this need. It's simple, with no central control plane to manage or other significant operational …

This is cross-posted from the Hardfin engineering blog.

As programming language ecosystems evolve, they learn from each other. When this happens we all benefit from more useful features, patterns, libraries, and tools. A core part of a programming language ecosystem — packaging — can be a source of pain, e.g. from …

This is cross-posted from the Hardfin engineering blog.

At Hardfin, we use AWS RDS for managed PostgreSQL instances to simplify our infrastructure and focus on product. For the most part, RDS is "just PostgreSQL" and acts like the PostgreSQL instances that we run on our development machines. Unfortunately, it differs …

Goodbye

I recently made the very hard decision to leave Blend. Today (March 4, 2022) is my last day. I am overwhelmed with emotion thinking about all of the amazing people I worked with and projects I worked on at Blend. I want to thank you all from the bottom …

I recently¹ had the privilege of co-authoring a blog post on the Blend engineering blog with my esteemed colleague Thomas Taylor. I copied this content over mostly as-is from the original post but wanted to preserve it here as well.

Contents

• Introduction
• Authoring an Action: Today's Landscape
• How We …