- So You Want to Hire for Developer Tooling: When to hire for a role like this, why, what sorts of problems they’ll likely tackle, and what they shouldn’t! It’s going to be a role that doesn’t have a lot of authority but will have to figure out how to get things done regardless. (Consensus builder.)
- Keeping the Lights On: The On-Call Process that Works: Lots of good ideas in here. Tinybird’s oncall isn’t mandatory but is compensated. Alerts are evaluated regularly and unhelpful ones are fixed or eliminated. Every alert has a runbook! Developers are expected to help out during core hours.
- Support ActivityPub for merge requests: Gitlab is looking to implement an activitypub server in their source control management system for certain workflows. (Currently around merging and collaborating on a repository across instances.) Interesting idea. I wonder how they’ll make it work!
