As a junior developer, the job market can be difficult. Every job description appears to want an engineer with over 5+ years of experience in every language and every tech library. If you only know ChangeWorldLib 1.7.3 and not 1.7.4, you’re out. I hear from my friends in developer bootcamps, “I just.. want a job. […]
Me friendly metrics
Often I see a widget displaying disk space: 47% remaining or 162379 GB of space left. That’s not very useful. This is what I need to know: [Disk Space] 14 days and 10 seconds left If this is shows up on a critical system, I’ll begin to panic. I only have two weeks to shift […]
Saved $1660 with a $40 experiment
We were trying to secure an important customer. They wanted an API to access our data. My team scrambled to assemble an endpoint. One of my engineers was very gung-ho about stress testing the API. He would throw everything he knew about breaking a system at it. And then we added SSL. We immediately saw […]
Suman growing Rockstor to 10 paid users
I caught up with Suman of Rockstor recently. I previously wrote about Suman managing an open source community. He’s been working on Rockstor for over 3 years, funding everything by himself. He needs to find a way to keep the open source spirit alive for himself and at the same time pay rent. We live in San Francisco. He […]
How does your team handle a stolen laptop?
A member of my team lost a company laptop. San Francisco is a harsh teacher if you leave a backpack visible in a car. Doesn’t matter where you’ve park, or how quickly you think you will be back – someone will come by and check. And they will smash your windows. I don’t think he […]
First day of a new hire
I was gung-ho about my first job out of college. I arrived at the lobby early in the morning eager to start. I’ve been in school the whole time and I wanted to work on many different projects, show impact and climb the career ladder as a junior hardware engineer. I had to wait. Everyone […]
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