Thomas Countz

Podcast: Into the Unknown Unknowns: Observability with Charity Majors

The speed of development and change in software engineering enables exponential growth and innovation. It can also give rise to ever-increasing complexity and the creation...more.

Podcast: Know Your History: Ethical Source with Coraline Ehmke

Coraline Ehmke’s path to the tech industry was non-traditional. It took someone to turn the key for her to find the community that she sought....more.

Podcast: It's a Process: More than Machine Learning with Hana Lee

“You can build an initial model, but you have to keep updating it. You have to continually operate it, doing things incrementally rather than trying...more.

Sargable Queries & MUL Indexes; or Why My Query is Slow

You're on Ops. Debugging Error-s in Invoicing Rails app, as usual. They're stored in MySQL, and accessed through ActiveRecord and some helper methods. They've already...more.

Podcast: Stealing Fire: Ambitious Side Projects with Kofi Gumbs

Many programmers settle into a work-life balance where their day job pays their bills and their side projects fuel their passions. UI programmer Kofi Gumbs...more.

Podcast: Tech's Pre-seatbelt Phase, with Eva PenzeyMoog

When we think of technology breaches, we often imagine a nefarious hacker behind a computer screen far away. But for survivors of domestic violence and...more.

Podcast: How Design Works with Jon Wettersten

What is design? What makes a designer? Big questions require big answers and Thomas and Jerome found the most overqualified person they could: Jon Wettersten,...more.

Introducing Collaborative Craft, a new podcast by 8th Light

We're excited to introduce our brand new podcast, Collaborative Craft. The trailer is available now wherever you listen to podcasts. We call Collaborative Craft a...more.

Dare to be Good Enough—You'll be Happier for it

As I sit down to write, I noticed a tug at the back of my neck—a tension forming as I begin editing my words obsessively....more.

Essential & Relevant: A Unit Test Balancing Act

I have never been a fan of "DRYing," out unit tests (i.e., abstracting duplicated test setup). I have always preferred to keep all of my...more.

Thomas Countz

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