Working hard is a great way to accelerate learning, but it can come at a cost. This post shares my experience and lessons taken from great role models I've found along the way.

The upcoming Golang embed directive can help distribute applications that depend on non-Go code assets. See how you can embed an entire Javascript website into your Go program, simplifying distribution to single binary.

Compression is a trick that can be used to solve a load of problems. Outside of well known use cases, there are a variety of opportunities to improve efficiency or save money by leveraging compression.

This post covers one such opportunity, where a tiny change allowed us to save >$30k per year in infrastructure cost, along with a few other big-savers from judicious application of compression.

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Your company probably has a lot of data. When you expose all of these different sources under a tool that makes complex analysis as fast as thought, you'll create a load of opportunities to make data-driven decisions.

By sharing an example where 2hrs of analysis helped prioritse 2-4 weeks of engineering work, I'm going to try convincing you that the value of a connected dataset is far more than the sum of its parts.

Tips-and-tricks to better handle incidents, learned over years of dealing with production issues. Included are opinions on strategy, process, tools and how to handle the all-important human element.

Read this if you're new to incident response and want a starter-pack of advice, or to contrast your own perspective with another.