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Apr 25, 2022

Why Success Is Often Elusive at the Highest Echelons

During recent discussions with friends, one common theme that crops up very frequently is how success has remained rather elusive to recent higher level hires at their companies. By “higher level hires”, I’m referring to not just senior managers, directors, and VPs, but also very senior engineers (think principal level)…

Engineering Mangement

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Engineering Mangement

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Jan 5, 2022

know how your org works (or how to become a more effective engineer)

A few months ago, exhausted by a constant stream of people perennially disappointed about reward structures at companies, I made what seemed to me a fairly non-controversial statement: Some of the responses to this were, well, rather pointed. Most people’s dismay seems to have stemmed from the exasperation around…

Engineering

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Engineering

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Dec 31, 2021

Best of 2021 in Tech [Talks]

Given it took me until October 2021 to post the list for 2020, thought I’d get a move on this year and post the list before the end of the year. A short list this year, inasmuch as I barely spent any time on “extracurricular” tech stuff. The first four…

Formal Methods

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Formal Methods

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Oct 4, 2021

Best of 2020 in Tech [Talks]

Every year, I publish a list of best technical talks of the previous year. Usually, these posts are published in the first couple of months of the year. 2020 and 2021, to say the least, haven’t been “normal” years, which explains why I’ve been dilatory in publishing this post. Usually…

Distributed Systems

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Distributed Systems

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Jan 1, 2021

Seamless file descriptor transfer between processes with pidfd and pidfd_getfd

A while ago, I wrote about how file descriptors can be transferred over Unix Domain Sockets between processes, when a parent child relationship doesn’t exist between the two processes. One of the use cases for file descriptor transfer between processes is during deployment of network proxies that handle ingress traffic…

Linux

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Linux

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Oct 15, 2020

Waypoint

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a demo of Waypoint, the new tool Hashicorp announced today, that aims to provide an easy, intuitive and customizable “build, deploy and release” workflow. This post isn’t a tutorial or a guide on how to use the product; the official documentation and tutorials…

Deployment Pipelines

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Deployment Pipelines

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Aug 17, 2020

Bash Redirection Fun With Descriptors

Bash Redirection: The Basics A bash script is commonly a set of commands. There are three standard file descriptors of any command: 0 → stdin 1 → stdout 2 → stderr There are two commonly used redirection operators: > output (This is the default operator for fd 1) < input (This is the default…

Bash

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Bash

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Aug 5, 2020

File Descriptor Transfer over Unix Domain Sockets

Update 12/31/2020: If you’re on a newer kernel (Linux 5.6+), much of this complexity has been obviated with the introduction of a new system call pidfd_getfd. Please see the post Seamless File Descriptor Transfer Between Processes with pidfd and pidfd_getfd published on 12/31/2020 for more details. Yesterday, I read a…

Unix

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File Descriptor Transfer over Unix Domain Sockets
File Descriptor Transfer over Unix Domain Sockets
Unix

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Aug 2, 2020

Tactical Challenges In Hiring Junior Engineers

All too often, I see comments or opinion pieces that read like platitudes about how every team should be hiring junior engineers. Let me start by saying that I’m all for hiring more junior engineers. There seems to be a perennial shortage of competent “senior” talent that seemingly every team…

Hiring

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Hiring

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Jul 14, 2020

Write More

All too often I see a lot of time and energy expended by people on social media on topics they obviously care a lot about. If the purpose of this energy is advocacy and bringing about real change, then it’s hard to think of a less effective way toward reaching…

Writing

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Writing

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