I have spent almost the entire last decade in a fairly specialized product company, building high performance I/O systems. I had the opportunity to see storage technology evolve rapidly and decisively. Talking about storage and its developments felt like preaching to the choir. This year, I have switched jobs. Being…

One stack to rule them all! — Originally posted to the ChiselStrike blog on Medium.com. [github] [discord] What is Remix? Remix is a react-based fullstack web framework that is now living rent free on my twitter feed. With all this praise, I’ve decided to take it for a spin. …

Originally posted to the ChiselStrike blog on Medium.com. [github] [discord] Oh, language wars. If there is anything more fulfilling than fighting over editors and IDEs, that’s fighting over programming languages. …

What would you do, if suddenly you could not access the internet? Many Canadians recently found out the hard way, when the Rogers outage took down almost a third of the country for an entire day. I myself, felt like I was back in the stone age.

Around 6 months ago, we embarked on a journey to come up with a simpler way for application developers to handle their data layers. By viewing everything in the backend as code — from the database to the business logic, we believed we could capture enough intent to automate the…

ChiselStrike is a fully remote company (and we are hiring for many roles!). Even the founders are spread around the world. We have worked like this before in at least two companies (before it was cool!) …

I lived my whole life in medium to big cities, always in condos. When COVID started in 2020, we had a 1 year old boy trapped at home. My wife and I decided to take our chances and do — in March — what many other people would end up…

Ah, programming… the art of cursing life and the universe, doubting your entire life choices, feeling miserable and then suddenly… change this one line of code, seeing everything work, and feeling on the top of the world. Coding is hard. And is hard for a variety of reasons. Some of…

Some people call me old. But the ones who want something from me usually prefer terms like wise or experienced. I’ve been around for a while, working with systems-level technologies like the Linux Kernel, and ScyllaDB, a high performance NoSQL database. …