I’ve been working on a platform migration project to containerize and move several web applications and associated services from a home grown system to Hashicorp’s Nomad. Nomad is a workload orchestration tool designed to make it (relatively) easy to deploy, manage and scale containers on private and public clouds. It’s…

I was inspired to write this after reading a post about how big tech companies organize their software engineering processes and the curious absence of scrum at these companies. While I don’t work at a FAANG (or MAANA given some company renames), I am fortunate to be working on a…

A few weeks ago I was setting up CI (continuous integration) for a Rails project that uses Sidekiq, Redis, and Postgres. Pretty straightforward, just needed to run a build, install and configure the services (Postgres and Redis), initialize the database, then run linting and tests. Prior to the general release…