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 …
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 …
This post was included in Golang Weekly issue 399.
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 …