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.
For my most recent side project tailsk8s, I've been hacking on a
bare metal Kubernetes cluster that uses Tailscale for networking.
I had a lot of fun and learned a lot, but the TL;DR is that each Kubernetes
node is a Tailscale subnet router and uses the kubenet CNI …
When using a database in an application, there are many ways the idioms from the database ecosystem can disagree with the idioms in the programming language used to write the application. The object-relational impedance mismatch is one such example of this, but that is mostly about differences between …
Over time an application becomes a living thing. When operating a running service, it's crucial to not only ask the question
Does the code being deployed work?
it's also crucial to ask
Can I safely deploy this change given the currently running version of my service?
This second question …