New post: Lessons I learned from building an open-source side project atkinsondev.com/post/open-sour…

It’s come to my attention that many people think continuous delivery/deployment is about taking whatever crap you have in version control & shipping it into prod as fast as possible so you can test in prod NO CD is about making it SAFE to ship your code into prod quickly by:

How early in the day is too early to eat chocolate pie? Asking for a friend

Great thread, applies to open-source/inner-source projects large and small

📄 I wrote a new post about why writing matters, and how to improve your written communication skills (on LeadDev) bit.ly/3IETfyn

New blog post: Five ways to be a force multiplier in software engineering atkinsondev.com/post/force-mul…

i recently wrote a piece about the essential compact between engineering and management, and some basic guidelines to crafting an on call policy that doesn't suck. (oncall being the topic that never dies 🧟‍♀️) leaddev.com/call/why-call-…

I built a thing: is your on-call rotation at risk of burning out your team? Find out with OnCalm: oncalm.dev

New: support for loading alerts directly from the PagerDuty API for analysis in the OnCalm alert sustainability tool oncalm.dev

New post: 5 tips for reducing on-call load oncalm.dev/blog/reducing-…

Try out this new way to experience for yourself the power of diagnosing production issues with Honeycomb.io System Status Updates - no signup or data setup required. Tip: check out the confetti on the last step of the scenario, my main contribution to Honeycomb Play.

New post about a Gradle plugin I built to visualize and optimize your builds in the same telemetry tooling as your apps and services with OpenTelemetry

New post: Intro to high-level Android UI tests with Maestro from MOVED TO: @maestro__dev, plus a new Gradle plugin I wrote to integrate your Maestro tests into your Gradle build atkinsondev.com/post/android-m…

Great write up from Craig Atkinson on how to run your Maestro tests with Gradle!

New post: Mock API servers for Maestro Android testing using MockServer and #Gradle atkinsondev.com/post/android-m… MOVED TO: @maestro__dev

New post: Over the past 15 years I've reviewed hundreds upon hundreds of software pull requests. Over time I've developed a set of four key items I look for in each review. I'm synthesizing and sharing these in hopes they are helpful to others as well: atkinsondev.com/post/pull-requ…

New post: Soft skills like communication are critical the farther you advance up the technical career ladder. I wrote a post with 10 communication tips collected over my recent years of staff+ technical roles (staff and principal engineer): atkinsondev.com/post/communica…

New post: You can't build everything - opportunity cost in software development atkinsondev.com/post/opportuni…

Over the weekend I experimented with the ChatGPT API, using it to analyze the impact of a team's oncall load. I wrote up a quick recap of my experiment in this new post: atkinsondev.com/post/chatgpt-o…

Wrote a new blog entry after reading a recent Reddit post in /r/devops: How many software alerts are normal to get during an on-call shift? atkinsondev.com/post/how-many-…