Rick Branson·Mar 12, 2021Don’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…A response icon8A response icon8
Rick Branson·Apr 4, 202010 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…A response icon19A response icon19
Rick Branson·Mar 29, 2020Rick’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……
Rick Branson·Mar 20, 2020Does 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…A response icon2A response icon2
Rick Branson·Feb 7, 2020Deploy 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…
Rick Branson·Feb 4, 2020Lean 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…
Rick Branson·Feb 3, 2020A Single Metric for Product QualityThis was extracted from my piece on counting production incidents to reduce the footprint of that piece.
Rick Branson·Feb 1, 2020Stop Counting Production Incidents“What can be counted doesn’t always count, and not everything that counts can be counted.” — William Bruce Cameron
Rick Branson·Jan 7, 2020Sharing 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…A response icon7A response icon7
Rick Branson·Dec 20, 2019RDS 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…A response icon3A response icon3
