Today marks my 1 year anniversary at CloudHealth Technologies. This last year has been a whirlwind to say the least. While today marks the anniversary of my start date at CloudHealth the story actually begins several months earlier. In 2014 I was working at Springboard Retail who, I might add…

CloudHealth is growing really fast and on the engineering team we have reached the size where we are starting to bring in more junior developers. For us this means developers who have great talent and ability but are just out of school or recently out of school. …

This morning at CloudHealth we had the best sprint retrospective we’ve had during my entire tenure (5 months already!?) Let me tell you why. The sprint itself was really productive. We delivered a lot of value to our customers, we responded promptly to customer issues, and we moved ourselves forward…

I’ve been at my new job at CloudHealth Technologies for about two months now. I feel incredibly grateful to be able to work with such a talented team and to have the opportunity to tackle hard problems in an increasingly interesting space. …

TL;DR I love my job, I love my career, I love solving hard problems, and I love crafting great software. Just not as much as a I love my daughter. When I was younger, i was one of the developers who would get to work early, code all day, leave…

I was just having a conversation with a colleague and he was telling me about how the bug count on one of our projects skyrocketed overnight (during the last week of a cycle) because QA finally looked at the output of our static analysis (Java findbugs) and logged defects on…

Last night I had the pleasure of going to listen to Atul Gawande speak about medicine, healthcare, his latest book (The Checklist Manifesto), and more generally about making systems, processes, and procedures work as complexity increases beyond the capabilities of the individual. As a surgeon, researcher, and writer Dr. Gawande…

Over the past few weeks we’ve witnessed a couple of big outages in the cloud computer world. First there was the downtime on Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure, and then this week there was the Blogger outage on Google’s infrastructure. …

My name is Adam, and i’m a recovering Singleton addict. There, i’ve said it. I used to use singletons all the time because they make doing some things, like sharing state globally, incredibly convenient. My code was littered with XYZManager classes. The defining trait of these classes was the static…