Putting “Customer” in the center becomes a top priority for product engineering teams, these days. One key element to that mindset is product “support” & quick turnaround time is crucial to keep customers happy. While modern engineering...
Like many reliability investments, the value of observability often isn’t appreciated until things go wrong, so figuring out who gets the bill can be difficult. Mapping usage to specific teams is helpful, but the ever-increasing surface area of observability...
I pride myself on being a lazy engineer, and trying to automate my day to day work as much as possible. In this talk, I’ll give a brief overview of the history of automation, before going on a math based explanation on how to associate a dollar amount to the...
As organizations grapple with ever-growing volumes of data, managing and querying large-scale datasets efficiently becomes a critical challenge. Apache Iceberg, an open-source table format for large, slow-changing datasets, emerges as a promising solution to address...
In a world of containerized everything, why not your database? No more pasting queries into config and crossing your fingers that they’ll work once your app is in dev. This talk will attempt to convince you to stop mocking your database layer and instead write...
