Stories by rdoherty

Civics is boring, so, let's encrypt something (2024)

Careful upgrading to cert-manager 1.18

Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine

From Nitro to Junction: Testing in Production at Scale

Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE

Standup Meetings Are Dead

Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism

The Fundamental Forces of Scale

Digital parents giving millions in China a vision of family love they never had

Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud

Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast

Rivian lays off 10% of workforce as EV pricing pressure mounts

AI convinced our CTO to upgrade our MacBooks

Could a $400k Australian court ruling silence Kiwi Farms?

Incident Review: What Comes Up Must First Go Down

Some developers are pushing back against violent video games

Broken Ownership

Slack Takes an Important Step to Block Abuse

Flow charts are O(n)2 complex, so don't go over 100 connections

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