Leon Fayer

What kids can teach us about building effective teams

Monitoring beyond averages

Recently, I’ve been using NewRelic as our primary observability tool. While, personally, I have not been a big…

Publications, talks and interviews

Sometimes I say and write things for public

Oncall for Developers

Should developers be put in an oncall rotation with SREs?

Of Gardening and Engineering

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.
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Perl is $schrödinger_state

I’ll tell you a secret. I am a huge Perl fan. Always was, ever since I started my developer career in the early 90s. And even though I have programmed in, probably, dozen of other languages since then and Perl has, in all fairness, become the COBOL of the 21st century — it still…