Archive - Sheep Code

I'm glad to be a 33 years old (ancient) software engineer

A letter to my 22 years old stupid self. Nothing prompted this!

Jan 22 •

December 2024

My work-life under threat by Amazon’s return-to-office mandate

How the tech giant’s RTO policy reshaped careers, priorities, and the industry.

Dec 16, 2024 •

July 2024

AWS deprecations

My thoughts and what it means for you

Jul 31, 2024 •

January 2024

The Engineering Rating Bell Curve

Don't be on the left. Get to the right.

Jan 5, 2024 •

December 2023

Rise of the Full-Stack Engineer

Be everything. Do anything.

Dec 23, 2023 •

August 2023

Microservices limit the productivity of high performing coders

Expertise needed shifts more towards systems design

Aug 10, 2023 •

July 2023

Google kills Site Reliability Engineering?

Is SRE gone forever?

Jul 24, 2023 •

April 2023

AWS Developer Innovation Day

Come see what I've been working on the past year

Apr 26, 2023 •

March 2023

IaC Proliferation

Flowchart for choosing an Infrastructure-as-Code tool

Mar 20, 2023 •

February 2023

DevLife #5: Microservice Hell

Our technical debt is your debt

Feb 7, 2023 •

January 2023

DevLife #4: System tests are better than unit tests

In the world of software engineering, testing your code is critical.

Jan 31, 2023 •

DevLife #3: Responding to a page while on-call

Outages happen. Here's a simple sequence to follow to troubleshoot.

Jan 19, 2023 •

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