dbsmasher corner
Thoughts, stories and ideas
On making connections
This post is by request from Baron Schwartz who has written about forming connections within his company, Vivid cortex
Thoughts on the new State of Devops report
This week, the latest State of DevOps report by the team at DORA was released. There is a lot of conversations in various social media platforms on what makes an engineering team ‘successful’ and how to increase feature velocity in tech companies and the DORA report does not just rely...
Hiring
Hiring is hard. It really is. You are looking to add a new human to your team who will hopefully work with you for many months to come but you have about an hour, at best, to develop some strong opinions about how they will perform in the future. We...
How to choose a data store for the new shiny thing
Note: This is post first appeared as part of the SysAdvent series of December of 2017
Encrypting All Our Backups: On Making It To That Finish Line
Note: This is a repost of a blog post I wrote for Sendgrid’s blog in September of 2017