Software Development
Hard Truths About Entrepreneurship
I originally posted this on X as a response to this HackerNews post (full text at the end of this post) but thought its worth expanding on.
Golden Testing Helm Charts
We love tests at Twingate. When working on the Twingate’s helm charts repository I wanted to incorporate testing like we do with other code.
Zero Downtime Django (gunicorn) Deployments on GKE
We recently switched to Twingate’s GKE load balancer to use Google’s new Container-native load balancer. The premise was good - LB talks directly to pods and saves an extra network hops, (with classic LB, traffic goes from LB to a GKE node which then, based on iptables configured by kube-proxy, get routed to the pod) and should perform better, support more features, and in general we’d rather be on google’s maintained side and not on legacy tech.
Scaling Your Analytics Schema Using Events Grammar
One of the most important aspects of building your own analytics system is how you store the data and expose it for querying.
5 Things I Learned About Managing an R&D Team
I made the first developer I was ever in charge of want to quit programming. That was roughly over 15 years ago.
