A lot of people use Println debugging. That is: When your program doesn’t work, add a ton of Printlns everywhere so you know whether things are going the way you planned as your code runs. Take the following code — and yes, there’s a bug in it: The idea…

First night at speaker’s club? You have to speak. Two speakers per talk. The apprentice shares their magic. The mentor provides support, and gently steers. Debugging happens on stage. When an apprentice asks their mentor for advice, everyone learns. Are you in the audience? The apprentice speaker is brave and amazing and you’re rooting for them. If an apprentice feels uncomfortable and/or has to leave the stage, remind them of #4.

A quick note: we’ve moved our blog over to garden.io, and you can also find this post there. 2019 fashion brings neon colors, cargo pants, and auto re-building & re-deploying microservices. Get with the times! In this year’s dotGo I presented go3dprint, a demo project for playing with 3D objects…

I’m happy to announce that my company, Garden, has raised a €1M+ pre-seed round led by Fly Ventures. As a team of developers passionate about distributed systems, we’re excited to use these funds to tackle one of our industry’s most difficult problems. In the current landscape we have the whole…

On part #1 we discussed the nature of the issues behind onboarding in large open source projects, and briefly got into what it is about Kubernetes that makes it so complicated. On part #2 we talked about many different possible ways to solve, or at least alleviate, the issues we…

I’ve been interviewing with a few companies the past month, and as part of these interviews, the other day I was asked to write an API as a take-home code challenge. …

On March 8, women’s day, I and a bunch of amazing ladies had a chat at Cheesecake Labs about all things Women In Tech. Something we quickly found out about ourselves was how many of us had come from different backgrounds than tech, and had…

Let’s talk Kubernetes. — Last week we discussed the nature of the issues behind onboarding in such large projects, and briefly got into what it is about Kubernetes that makes it so complicated. We also looked at a few possible solutions for those issues, and concluded they may not be enough. Communities behind such…

Let’s talk Kubernetes. — With my Outreachy internship nearing its end, I’d like to share what I believe to be the most important lesson from working on Kubernetes full time for nearly three months. You might’ve guessed from the title: it’s about onboarding. I won’t go so far as to claim it’s the…