Every time we talk about promotions and career paths, we listen a lot about how to get there. Today, I want to tell the story of how I failed to get the role... twice! For context: I joined Adevinta as Engineering Manager of the Runtime team in late 2020. We were part of an internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. We provided SC...

When I first wrote about microservice disasters, I thought we'd eventually "solve" them, with better tooling, frameworks, and operational maturity. We didn't. We just learned to live with the chaos. Distributed systems will always surprise you: timeouts, retries, and fallacies don't disappear; they just shift shape. Maybe that's the re...