Essays

Chris Riccomini
January 5, 2023 Recap: A Data Catalog for People Who Hate Data Catalogs January 5, 2023
June 13, 2022 How to Plan Work for an Infrastructure Team June 13, 2022
December 13, 2021 How to Write a Technical Book December 13, 2021
November 8, 2021 Work for Two Companies November 8, 2021
November 1, 2021 The Missing README Software Engineering Links & Resources November 1, 2021
October 11, 2021 OAuth “Sign In With Google” in a WkWebView October 11, 2021
June 21, 2021 Preventing Technology Turf Wars June 21, 2021
June 8, 2021 What the Heck is a Data Mesh?! June 8, 2021
July 29, 2019 The Future of Data Engineering July 29, 2019
February 19, 2019 Yes, you still need a QA team (but not for writing your tests) February 19, 2019
February 4, 2019 Managing Kafka topic configuration February 4, 2019
January 22, 2019 Kafka is your escape hatch January 22, 2019
January 15, 2019 Research in cell, animal, and human software simulation can speed up experimentation January 15, 2019
November 27, 2018 In defense of design documents November 27, 2018
November 19, 2018 Minimum viable infrastructure November 19, 2018
November 12, 2018 Don’t tell people what to do, ask them how to do it November 12, 2018
November 5, 2018 Kafka change data capture breaks database encapsulation November 5, 2018
October 29, 2018 Models and microservices should be running on the same continuous delivery stack October 29, 2018
October 23, 2018 Your First Technical Presentation October 23, 2018
November 11, 2017 Trust, but automate November 11, 2017
August 29, 2017 Kafka Topic Naming Conventions August 29, 2017
August 21, 2017 Choosing Where to Work August 21, 2017
August 14, 2017 One big cluster, or many small ones? August 14, 2017
August 7, 2017 So, you want to build a Kafka Connector? Source edition. August 7, 2017
June 14, 2013 Using YARN with Cgroups June 14, 2013
October 22, 2012 Tech exits October 22, 2012
October 5, 2012 Kafka Consumer Memory Tuning October 5, 2012
September 29, 2012 Schedules & Scores API for Streaming Live Sports Stats September 29, 2012
September 25, 2012 Killing Subprocesses in Linux/Bash September 25, 2012
November 13, 2009 Sorting Reducer Input Values in Hadoop November 13, 2009