Starting next week, I'll be joining the incident.io team after logging off for the last time at GoCardless. Mostly for myself, here's some reflections on the last five years.

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.

Building a modern infrastructure stack is difficult, with a bewildering number of choices to be made. Some technologies complement each other, while others have very different philosophies: it’s easy to get lost.

To help those facing similar challenges, we’re open-sourcing our “Getting Started” tutorial, which is what we ask all GoCardless developers to follow during their onboarding.

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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