Author: michaelgat

Software is hard

A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a...

Wrapping up 2019

In January, I packed up and shipped everything I wanted to keep, got in the car with Flash, and drove to Seattle. I arrived...

SCE to AUX

DevOps Lessons from Apollo 12. 90 Seconds that defined what it means to do good work under pressure....

Well, that took a while

When I wrapped up 2018 just ahead of my move, I had a notion that it might be a while before I posted again. I...

Lightning talks, and not…

Lightning talks seem scary, but are in fact one of the best ways to introduce yourself to public speaking in general. Once you can do...