Jan 3, 2020Caring Makes or Breaks an Engineering OrganizationThis was originally published here when I worked for Shippo An engineering leader and I discussed various experiences we’ve had with poorly-performing team members and came to the same conclusion: Caring is 90 percent of what makes an engineer successful in an organization. This concept has evolved over the years…Startup7 min readStartup7 min read
Published inSYNQ·May 7, 2018Our (Development) CultureThis was originally posted on our blog TL;DR : team building based on core behaviors Recently, we had a candidate go through our hiring process, which entails a 1–2 week trial working with our development team. He did exceedingly well and on his first PR, had brought up documentation convention…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Published inSYNQ·Sep 7, 2017Golang Microservice Starter KitTL;DR — check out our gosample repo. This article was originally posted on the SYNQ blog. Here at SYNQ, we’ve built our Video API service on Golang. …Microservices6 min readMicroservices6 min read
Published inRunscope·May 30, 20173 Easy Steps to Cloud Operational ExcellenceThere are a lot of tools out there, and sometimes its hard to sift through them all. …Live Streaming7 min readLive Streaming7 min read
Published inSYNQ·Mar 27, 2017APIS — A Deeper Look Into The Developer MindsetThis post was originally published on the SYNQ blog. In my last article, I talked about the key advantages APIs based companies have, but it might still be a little fuzzy on what exactly makes the model better. I believe there are two key concepts that differentiate the APIs of…API6 min readAPI6 min read
Published inSYNQ·Feb 21, 2017The Second Wave Of Online VideoSomewhere between 300 to 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. By 2020, if you decided to watch every single video that was uploaded in a one-month time frame, it would take you 5 million years. …Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Feb 2, 2017Going back to CaliWell, I knew this day would eventually come, but it came a little sooner than expected; My family and I are moving back to San Francisco. We moved out to Kansas back in January 2014, and spent 3 wonderful years there. I’ve made many friends, reached out to the entrepreneur…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Published inBrightergy Engineering·Oct 19, 2016DevOps KPIs with Elixir and Geckoboardtl;dr : Check out our ex_gecko plugin on GitHub If you haven’t heard, Geckoboard is a fantastic live dashboard company which makes it very easy to get key metrics on a beautifully designed board. On one of our previous milestones, we made a big push to get “Production ready” and…SaaS5 min readSaaS5 min read
Oct 5, 2016A Practical Technology WorkshopI recently joined GMS (Growth Mentoring Service), an entrepreneur mentoring service covering the KC metro area. It’s part of ECJC, “a non-profit organization that connects entrepreneurs with the resources they need to grow and scale”. I have a technology background and one of the first things I asked was, “Do…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Published inBrightergy Engineering·Sep 2, 2016GitHub PR + Heroku + Runscope = Peace of Mindtl;dr : check out the code to run your own mini GitHub CI server We use Runscope to test our backend APIs (and Ghost Inspector for our front-end) and these run as triggers in our Heroku pipeline whenever we deploy to our staging and prod environments. However, for our “Review…Elixir7 min readElixir7 min read