Engineering and Careering

Engineering and Careering

Prevent Software Disasters by asking ‘What if?’

Jun 27, 20226 min read

Play a Game of Disasters to discover your operational risks · Software fails in production far more than it should - yielding to pressures of use, both...

Prevent Software Disasters by asking ‘What if?’

Being Rugged: How not to fail when things break.

Jul 12, 20214 min read

A real-life tale of how Testing in Production has your back if you build safe enough failure states · Testing in production doesn't come for free. It...

Being Rugged: How not to fail when things break.

Set up and maintain Exceptional Alerts

Jun 25, 20214 min read

Networks are not perfect; mistakes get shipped; your code, integrations, and users will surprise you. Testing in Production is your safety net....

Set up and maintain Exceptional Alerts

Put yourself in the picture: zoom screen share hacking

Jun 22, 20212 min read

A more human way to present · Presenting a talk over Zoom? Unsure if you should screen-share some lovely slides or if showing your lovely face would...

Put yourself in the picture: zoom screen share hacking

Testing collaborating microservices in Production

Jun 22, 20214 min read

Adding observability and cross-application monitoring to microservices · You want to be confident that your users can keep using your service to achieve...

Testing collaborating microservices in Production

Test in Production: setting expectations on your services.

Jun 20, 20214 min read

Instrumenting Application Behaviours with Monitoring tooling · A friend of mine tells a great story of a team avoiding a great deal of grief. All of...

Test in Production: setting expectations on your services.