How to Run Inclusive Meetings

22 Feb 2018

Peer review and feedback season is well upon us, and one of the most frustrating pieces of feedback I’ve received (and regrettably given) is “you should talk more in meetings.”

Google Cloud IAM for AWS Users

11 Jan 2017

I spent some time trying to set up a project on Google Cloud Platform a couple weeks ago, and spent the majority of the time trying to make sense of its IAM model, mistakenly assuming that it was the same as AWS’s. In short:

2016 in Review

31 Dec 2016

Well it’s that time of year again. I didn’t follow through well with writing (or really with most of my goals) in 2016, but here’s the run down!

2015 in Review

31 Dec 2015

I started 2015 by actually writing down goals for the first time, and in retrospect feel like I did more than I otherwise would have had I not made them. The move to London sponged up a lot of free time in the latter half of the year, so here’s to hoping 2016 is a bit more productive.

Thoughts on Distributed Tracing

21 Dec 2015

A colleague recently asked whether we should spin up a distributed tracing tool, and I realized that I had never written down some of my experiences developing and running a production Zipkin deployment.