Rick BransonDon’t Fucking Deploy on FridayIf a change isn’t safe to deploy to production, don’t do it on Friday. Don’t be a jerk and spoil the team’s weekend. But it points to a…Mar 12, 20218Mar 12, 20218
Rick Branson10 Things I Hate About PostgreSQLOver the last few years, the software development community’s love affair with the popular open-source relational database has reached a…Apr 4, 202019Apr 4, 202019
Rick BransonRick’s Bloody Mary MixA little detour from our regularly scheduled program. I find the pre-made mixes in the store to be lacking in flavor and considering that……Mar 29, 2020Mar 29, 2020
Rick BransonDoes your WiFi suck for video calls? Use 20MHz channels!After years of trials and tribulations in San Francisco apartments, the single best thing I did for my home network was to switch most…Mar 20, 20202Mar 20, 20202
Rick BransonDeploy Frequency is a Vanity MetricIt’s 10:30 on a Monday morning. Daily standup time. You walk into the room where it’s been held every day since the company moved into this…Feb 7, 2020Feb 7, 2020
Rick BransonLean Into Those “Single Points of Failure”“You should go all in on your single points of failure,” I say with obnoxiously casual confidence, moments before incredulous glares dart…Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Rick BransonA Single Metric for Product QualityThis was extracted from my piece on counting production incidents to reduce the footprint of that piece.Feb 3, 2020Feb 3, 2020
Rick BransonStop Counting Production Incidents“What can be counted doesn’t always count, and not everything that counts can be counted.” — William Bruce CameronFeb 1, 2020Feb 1, 2020
Rick BransonSharing SQLite databases across containers is surprisingly brilliantThis is a graph of latency in milliseconds. It’s the latency of Segment’s streaming pipeline fetching a very core piece of…Jan 7, 20207Jan 7, 20207
Rick BransonRDS Pricing Has More Than DoubledThis blew me away. I have been using AWS in production for ten years. Until today, I made the assumption that their Relational Database…Dec 20, 20193Dec 20, 20193
