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Cultivate your developer toolbox
Stop writing throw-away scripts to solve your day-to-day engineering challenges, cultivate a toolbox.
Jan 24, 2023
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June 2022
Schrödinger’s Microservice
Designing a massive-scale distributed system is an exercise in herding Schrödinger’s cats; dependencies simultaneously alive and dead.
Jun 11, 2022
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March 2022
Optimize Development Cold Start
In my career at Amazon as a software engineer, I’ve contributed to over 200 packages across 43 applications and services for 6 software products, from…
Mar 4, 2022
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January 2022
Professional What-If’ing
A quirk learned after years of professional “What-if”ing Several years ago in a blog post by James Hamilton (Distinguished Engineer at AWS), I read a…
Jan 3, 2022
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December 2021
My Family Minecraft Survival Multiplayer Server built on AWS
Last month (November 18, 2021) marked the one-year birthday of my family Minecraft Survival Multiplayer server. After over 1,500 hours of combined play…
Dec 17, 2021
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August 2021
1Gbps@10ms network in a 100 year old house
This year marks my Seattle home’s 100st birthday! Hurray! 🥳🎉 Moving from a brand new high-rise downtown apartment to a 100-year-old house in the…
Aug 30, 2021
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June 2021
My Experience With Spinal Fusion
My Spinal Fusion Experience In May 2021 I had a lumbar inter-body fusion at 30 years old to address a 15-year recurring disc herniation between my L5/S1…
Jun 15, 2021
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May 2021
Renting a single family home in Seattle
My wife and I have rented one- or two bedroom high-rise apartments in the Capitol Hill, South Lake Union, and Belltown neighborhoods in Seattle for the…
May 20, 2021
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November 2020
Stuff!
Welcome to Zach’s Stuff by me, Zach. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime, tell your friends!
Nov 1, 2020
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May 2017
Three Years — Part 2: Productivity
Working in enterprise software engineering for the last three years, I’ve started to recognize a few patterns in the projects, systems, and teams I’ve…
May 20, 2017
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Three Years — Part 1: Names and Types
Working in enterprise software engineering for the last three years, I’ve started to recognize a few patterns in the projects, systems, and teams I’ve…
May 20, 2017
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October 2015
Flexible tests with DataProviders and Strategies
TestNG DataProviders are a powerful way to parameterize test classes, allowing you to run a single test method many times with different inputs. For…
Oct 27, 2015
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