The ratio of “internal tooling” or “developer productivity” engineers to others is too low in most companies. If you have 50 devs and have room to improve productivity at least 1% a quarter, you have budget for 1-2 dedicated DX engineers. Not even counting intangible benefits.

Wow, Yelp replaced Elasticsearch with their own Search solution built on top of #Apache #Lucene and using Lucene's near-real-time segment replication for efficient replicas. engineeringblog.yelp.com/2021/09/nrtsea…

GitHub Copilot Technical Preview is available now for developers on the JetBrains IntelliJ platform of editors including IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE and PyCharm, a JetBrains IDE plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/17718-g…

Another great example of the problems caused by code duplication! 📄arxiv.org/abs/1812.06469 ℹ️miltos.allamanis.com/publications/2…

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another layer of abstraction… Except for the problem of too many layers of abstraction"

New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/11/28/i-h…

DNS doesn't "propagate" jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/0…

Finally! Looking forward to give this a try.

Define coincidence; writing a conference proposal on Open Source and at the same time getting an urgent email to patch log4j

My top 5 books for 2021: nkatirtzis.medium.com/my-top-5-books… #readinglist #2021wrapup

Brilliant.

Recently, I spent some time building #spinnaker plugins. This blogpost summarises my learnings: nkatirtzis.medium.com/a-hitchhikers-…

The GitHub ReadME Project posted my piece on the value of seeing operational work! github.com/readme/guides/…

If you are looking for a developer-friendly infra management platform you should check github.com/lyft/clutch. @danielhochman and team have done an amazing job.

Devs should not just write good code, but also good documentation. Especially senior devs and people who what to shape a good #engineeringculture should read buff.ly/380lJEH by Paulo André

A kanban board, but it only has one column: “doing”, and there are a fixed number of slots, and when something urgent comes up and there are no slots left, you ask the team “what should we stop doing?”

It was a pleasure meeting Beyang and Chris Laffra and talking about developer tools, startups, and career choices.