My Technical Writing
I write technical blog posts and guides for companies that make products for developers and data teams. Historically I have been pretty good at getting to the front page of Hacker News.
Selected Posts
- How does database sharding work?
- How do database indexes work?
- NoneSQL, All the DevEx: on the future of databases
- Introduction to feature flagging and randomization
- The Developer's Guide to Audit Logs / SIEM
- The Developer's Guide to Directory Sync / SCIM
- The Developer's Guide to SSO
- Migrating from Spectrum to Discourse
- Isolation levels and locking in relational databases
- Formatting and dealing with dates in SQL
- Why is Oracle worth $260B?
The Technically Newsletter
I write a newsletter that explains software engineering to not-software-engineers. It has 55K subscribers at the time of writing. You can check it out on Substack here.