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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Best Practices Writing Production-Grade PySpark Jobs

How to Structure Your PySpark Job Repository and Code Using PySpark to process large amounts of data in a distributed fashion is a great way to manage large-scale data-heavy tasks and gain business insights while not sacrificing on developer efficiency.

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5 Tips for Choosing Your Startup’s Technology Stack

Having worked as a CTO and technology consultant to many startups I can tell you that choosing the initial technology is an important decision where you have to take into account several factors:

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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.