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Chris Shaffer

Chris Shaffer

Why do cloud hosting costs fly off the rails? — Scout Corps

Let’s do a thought experiment, envisioning two alternate realities.

May 9

May 9

Chris Shaffer

Two bad strategies and three good ones for mitigating against cloud vendor lock-in — Scout Corps

“Hedge your bets” by having a presence on multiple clouds (bad)

Nov 15, 2023

Nov 15, 2023

Chris Shaffer

Bridging the Divide: How to Evaluate Engineers’ Work When You’re Not Technical — Scout Corps

Let’s set a baseline: if you understand the mindset of your customer, you know full well whether a product you’re looking at is one they’d…

Sep 26, 2023

Sep 26, 2023

Chris Shaffer

Just how much data do you need for machine learning anyways? And how clean?

Wormtongue: It will take a number beyond reckoning, thousands.

Aug 24, 2023

Just how much data do you need for machine learning anyways? And how clean?

Aug 24, 2023

Chris Shaffer

How To Do Zero-Downtime Database Releases

Most teams at this point know how to update web applications without downtime. Few know how to update the databases behind them, though…

Jul 25, 2023

Jul 25, 2023

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What Makes a “Tech” Company? — Scout Corps

Reading this ( https://www.economist.com/business/2023/07/06/a-lego-lovers-guide-to-preparing-for-the-ai-age ) article inspired me to put…

Jul 17, 2023

What Makes a “Tech” Company? — Scout Corps

Jul 17, 2023

Chris Shaffer

On LLMs, Thought, and the Concept of Truth

Here’s a fun conversation I had today with ChatGPT:

Jun 8, 2023

On LLMs, Thought, and the Concept of Truth

Jun 8, 2023

Chris Shaffer

On the Crypto Debacle (Aug. 2021)

I sent this letter to the local newspaper of record in August 2021. This was after numerous attempts to contact and convey this message to…

Nov 17, 2022

Nov 17, 2022

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How Code Structure Influences Culture and Work Habits — Scout Corps

Much as a nation’s constitution and structure of its public institutions shapes its governing philosophy and society, the structure of…

Jan 7, 2022

How Code Structure Influences Culture and Work Habits — Scout Corps

Jan 7, 2022

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Your Grandpappy’s Cross-Database SQL Copy — Scout Corps

If you’ve worked a decent amount with databases in the past, you’ll know that “one does not simply move data from one database to another.”

Mar 18, 2020

Your Grandpappy’s Cross-Database SQL Copy — Scout Corps

Mar 18, 2020

Chris Shaffer

Chris Shaffer

Current software consultant. Previously everything from junior coder to CTO at companies ranging in size from 25–10,000. Mostly but not exclusively fin-tech…

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