I'm a software engineer specialized in distributed systems, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure at scale. Currently working on systems to deploy GPU infrastructure and AI workloads orchestration for private clouds. Principal engineer at Midokura. 10+ years in Staff+ roles at New Relic and Adevinta. Earlier, Last.fm, Tuenti, See about for more.
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- Code reviews can't keep up
- AI workloads challenge the cattle model
- PoC is a framework of perverse incentives
- AI-generated code will choke delivery pipelines
- Why aren't we all serverless yet?
- Identifiers are better off without meaning
- Alert on symptoms, not causes
- How about we forget the concept of test types?
- How organisations cripple engineering teams with good intentions
- Migrating an Eureka-based microservice fleet to Kubernetes
- ⭐ Talk write-up: "How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers"
- ⭐ Kubernetes made my latency 10x higher
- Sizing Kubernetes pods for JVM apps without fearing the OOM Killer
- GC forensics by example: multi-second pauses and allocation pressure
- ⭐ How does the default hashCode() work?
- Frugal memory management on the JVM (Meetup)
- DirectBuffer creation / disposal has hidden contention on sun.misc.Cleaner