Author: Michael Gat
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 software service. As big as it was, I doubt any... Read More
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 on January 19th, checked in to my temporary apartment, and started work on ... Read More
SCE to AUX
DevOps Lessons from Apollo 12. 90 Seconds that defined what it means to do good work under pressure.... Read More
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 didn’t think it would be this long. Multiple things got in the way. My hosting serv... Read More
Wrapping up 2018, a year of big changes
On January 16th I will depart for Seattle, where I will be working for Amazon Web Services starting on the 21st.... Read More
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 one of these, you can easily relax some of the rules for longer pr... Read More
Why do I have a BA in Computer Science?
The fact that I had a BA in computer science rather than a BS seemed to be a real stickler for the hiring manager.... Read More
More Moore’s Law
At the SoCal Python meeting on October 30th, I'm going to address in greater detail what I think developers are going to need to worry about in a post-Moore's Law world, and why we need to be better e... Read More