Jan 16Books I Read in 2022I started publishing this books roundup in 2015. Here’s how I do it: at the end of the year, I pull all the books from Goodreads into a spreadsheet. I vaguely categorize them. I think about the ones I really connected with. Usually I don’t publish the post until a…Books5 min readBooks5 min read
Published inTilt Blog·May 24, 2022Joining DockerBig news! The Tilt team is joining Docker. The Tilt project is joining too. We think this is a great fit and I will tell you why. The Problem Modern apps are made of so many services. They’re everywhere. …Kubernetes4 min readKubernetes4 min read
Jan 2, 2022Books I Read in 2021I’ve been publishing a books roundup since 2015. I can’t believe it’s 2022 and, as far as I can tell, no one has improved Goodreads and nothing has really replaced it. But at least we have bookshop.org now. Hopefully this list can help you find some good books! 10 Books I Particularly Liked and Why Severance by Ling…Books6 min readBooks6 min read
May 21, 2021Go Rant: Buffered Channels Should be Tossed in a FireEmpirical and Theoretical Arguments Why This Feature Sucks — Channels are Go’s fundamental tool for concurrent programming. Buffered channels are a small, innocent-looking feature on top of channels. I’m going to try to convince you that they’re a monstrous abomination. Quick Recap on What I’m Ranting About First, a quick recap of how channels work if you haven’t used Go in a while. A channel lets…Golang3 min readGolang3 min read
Apr 13, 2021As it has now been 3+ years since you wrote this, has anything you complained about with Basel…11Mike SchinkelIn the 3 years since I wrote my post on Bazel, there have been a few changes to the Bazel…In the 3 years since I wrote my post on Bazel, there have been a few changes to the Bazel ecosystem: 1) I've met many more large engineering orgs that have either partially adopted Bazel, or are investigating Bazel. 2) There are several different companies that build tooling around Bazel…1 min read1 min read
Published inTilt Blog·Apr 2, 2021Three Ways to Run Kubernetes on CI and Which One is Right for You!When we first started developing Tilt, we broke ALL THE TIME. Either Kubernetes changed. Or we had a subtle misunderstanding in how the API works. Our changes would pass unit tests, but fail with a real Kubernetes cluster. I built out an integration test suite that used the latest version…Kubernetes4 min readKubernetes4 min read
Published inTilt Blog·Mar 18, 2021Kubernetes is so Simple You Can Explore it with CurlA common take on Kubernetes is that it’s very complicated. … and because it’s complicated, the configuration is very verbose. … and because there’s so much config YAML, we need big toolchains just to handle that config. I want to convince you that the arrow of blame points in the…Kubernetes4 min readKubernetes4 min read
Jan 2, 2021Reading List 2020My reading productivity took a big hit year, because The New York Public Library closed until late summer My daily reading routine revolved around the daily subway commute, which was no more The cats kept attacking my booksBooks4 min readBooks4 min read
Published inTilt Blog·Apr 28, 2020The First Modern Mention of KubernetesAnd Why it Still Matters — I found the first mention of Kubernetes in computer science!! It comes from a book. “Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and Machine” by Norbert Wiener. Originally published in 1948. (Yes, even in 1948, non-fiction book titles abused the colon.) The book has its own Wikipedia page. So…3 min read3 min read
Jan 25, 2020Books I Read in 2019Here are all the covers (thanks Goodreads!)Books5 min readBooks5 min read
