In Q3 2024, our 12-person platform team slashed log ingestion spend by 35% in 90 days, moving from a brittle Elasticsearch-based pipeline to a tuned Vector 0.30 and Loki 3.0 stack—without losing a single log or breaking our 99.95% SLA. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (279 points) Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym (144 points) Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (15
We Cut Compliance Costs by 40% Using Pulumi 3.140 and Chef 18 for Multi-Cloud AWS and GCP Modern multi-cloud environments offer unmatched flexibility, but they also introduce complex compliance challenges. For our team managing hybrid infrastructure across AWS and GCP, manual policy enforcement and fragmented tooling were driving up compliance costs by 22% year-over-year. By integrating Pulumi 3
In Q3 2024, our 12-person platform engineering team reduced confirmed security incidents by 41.7% (from 72 to 42 per quarter) after rolling out Trivy 0.50 for pre-deployment scanning and Falco 0.40 for runtime detection across 142 production microservices. We didn’t rewrite our CI/CD pipeline, we didn’t hire a dedicated security team, and we didn’t spend a dime on enterprise security tools. Here’s
Part 2 of 5 in The New Engineering Contract - what it means to lead engineers when AI is doing more of the coding. Stripe never skipped the boring stuff. They ship 1,300 AI PRs a week. Amazon skipped it. Their storefront went down for six hours. Kent Beck wrote the answer in Extreme Programming Explained in 1999. We read it. Then chose velocity anyway. A friend of mine leads engineering at a funde
Part 1 of 5 in The New Engineering Contract — what it means to lead engineers when AI is doing more of the coding. SWE-CI tested 18 AI models across 71 consecutive commits. Most broke something on commit 47 they'd already broken on commit 1. That's not an intelligence problem. That's a learning system that isn't learning. A paper made me uncomfortable this month. Not because of what it found about