For about a year, my primary coding agent was goose. Since I worked at Block and served as a Developer Advocate for the project, I was deeply embedded in its ecosystem. I contributed code and provided product feedback that shaped how it functioned. Then, I moved to a company called Entire that provides the infrastructure for the agentic software development lifecycle. To do my job well, I have to
At 3:17 AM on a Tuesday in Q3 2024, our production Kotlin 2.0 microservice fleet hit a 92% memory utilization threshold across 140 nodes, traced to a silent coroutine leak in Ktor 2.2’s request pipeline that had been bleeding 12MB of heap per second for 72 hours. We lost $14k in SLO credits before we found the root cause. A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury (78 p