At GitLab we have a development director shadow program which allows any GitLab employee a deeper look into the day-to-day operations of an engineering director. Last year I had the opportunity to be part of GitLab’s CEO shadow program. I got tremendous value out of it, and learned what CEO’s…

ReactJS meets Go — There are many cool server applications we can create which interact with Kubernetes using client-go. Sometimes we want to make our applications visually appealing, so that we can easily perform functions without the need to send requests via curl, postman, etc. In this blog post, I’ll go over how to…

Learn how to create, build, test, and automate a Go application that interfaces with Kubernetes — Kubernetes’ Client-Go provides all sorts of packages for interacting with your cluster. These packages include the following: The kubernetes package contains the clientset to access Kubernetes API. The discovery package is used to discover APIs supported by a Kubernetes API server. The dynamic package contains a dynamic client that can…

Life isn’t easy, there are lots of events which interfere with our happiness and well-being, however adversity causes us to grow. We not only become stronger, but also better people in general. There are times in my life when I am feeling down and depressed. …

Debugging is an important part of resolving programming problems. There are many tools out there that are much better than print statements, although this is a debated topic. Python comes with a built-in interactive debugger known as pdb. Pdb allows you to set breakpoints and single step at the source…

In an age where companies like Netflix are running over 500 Microservices at once, it is important to quickly find out where exactly a failure or decrease in performance is coming from. …

I’ve been making lots of videos for marketing technical features for my employer (GitLab). In this guide I will show you how to make great videos that will not only draw, but keep users attention. Disclaimer, I’m not at influencer level yet! Keyword “yet”. I’ll go over the following topics: …

I was very fortunate to qualify for the GitLab CEO Shadow program after there was a last minute slot opening. In this program I followed Sid through his daily work routine (and some of his personal ventures). I got to see the inner workings of GitLab, as well as attend…

According to the United States Department of Labor, close to 5-million Americans are currently working in retail. During College, I worked at a Retail Office Supply Store and have many stories. A lot of these stories come from my memory of working in retail over 10 years ago. There were…