An important aspect of my job involves engagement in cross-functional initiatives, spanning diverse teams and domains. Over the past few years, I’ve embraced a strategic shift - shy away from the pursuit of consensus. Rather than striving for unanimous agreement, my approach centers on crafting solutions with minimized opposition. In the world of cross-functional projects, the pursuit of consensus can sometimes lead us down the path of decision paralysis. Instead of seeking unanimous agreement, I’ve found success in fostering a culture where diverse perspectives contribute to solutions with fewer roadblocks....

“Push notifications are a powerful way for application publishers to engage users directly. Publishers can use them on most mobile platforms and at any time—you don’t need to be using a given application to receive them. They bypass spam filters and are frequently used to drive actions, like telling the user about a special discount, a weather event, or a financial transaction that needs to be confirmed.” If you would like to know more about how to implement push notifications with Expo and how Courier can help simplify the process, check out this Step-by-Step guide I wrote about it....

Originally published on The New Stack and Squadcast. Ensuring that systems run reliably is a critical function of a site reliability engineer. A big part of that is collecting metrics, creating alerts and graph data. It’s of the utmost importance to gather system metrics, from several locations and services, and correlate them to understand system functionality as well as to support troubleshooting. Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, has become one of the most popular open source solutions for application and system monitoring....

Learn how to install and run Argo Workflows on each of the top managed K8s providers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. We’ll cover the details of how to get up and running with Argo Workflows for each cloud provider. Check out this article I wrote on Pipekit’s blog.

Originally published on CD Foundation. This was my first contribution to a collaborative CD Foundation blog post. A lot of interesting insights from a very smart group of people. Worth checking out. “Building and releasing software is complex. Teams want to build software faster. Organizations want to get their products in front of users as soon as possible. To stay competitive, companies invest in automation. To that end, many of them started moving their pipelines to some form of CI/CD....