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…2 min read·Mar 12, 2021--8--8
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…10 min read·Apr 4, 2020--19--19
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……2 min read·Mar 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…3 min read·Mar 20, 2020--2--2
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…10 min read·Feb 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…3 min read·Feb 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.2 min read·Feb 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 Cameron6 min read·Feb 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…5 min read·Jan 7, 2020--7--7
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…3 min read·Dec 20, 2019--3--3