Writing

Opinions on platforms, reliability, and the teams that run them.

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Reliability

Drafting

Most platform teams are optimizing the wrong thing.

On-call

Drafting

Your on-call rotation is a hiring problem in disguise

Developer experience

Outlining

Kill the staging environment

Platform strategy

Outlining

Golden paths beat golden handcuffs