Stories by rdoherty

Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations

Addressing GitHub's recent availability issues

Chasing Boring at Just the Right Speed

Block to lay off nearly half its staff in 'deliberate and bold' embrace of AI

Ford pulls the plug on the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck

GPT's Glazing and the Danger of AI Agreeableness

Incident.io Service disruption on October 20, 2025

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

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