When I hear self-service, I think of a restaurant where customers serve themselves, which minimizes wait times and maximizes efficiency. Similarly, in our software engineering team, self-service...
I really enjoyed reading the debates around choosing boring or exciting technology. In my opinion, there is another interesting point, beyond new or old, that is about longevity, or durability....
You may be familiar with this situation: your team has been working on a project for a while, and now that it seems to do the job, it is not really justified for so many engineers to spend time on...
Most of us are relatively familiar with system monitoring: we monitor RAM, CPU, or disk usage over time and receive alerts when some thresholds are reached. But the quality of a whole service is...
Recently, while I was migrating old repos from TravisCI to Github Actions, I realized that several of them had wobbly Makefiles. I know that Makefiles are not super elegant, and that intrepid...
When I started to write the first lines of this article, it was the last day of Ethan in our team. His departure marked the end of an era that I'll try to tell you about here. Prehistory (~2014)...
I had several opportunities to hack with Rust, but so far, besides this very high loaded Web service that runs in production, it was either on prototypes or on stuff that could have been...
A great part of my job at Mozilla consists in maintaining the ecosystem of Firefox Remote Settings, which is already a few years old. But recently I had the chance to spin up a new Python project...
A very short article about one of the recent bugs I carelessly designed :) I wrote the code below and had certain expectations: no matter what happens, catch the error and return a fallback value....
In order to make sure that your remote content was fetched successfully by your client, we can use a bit of cryptography. A simple way is to compute a hash on the server, and let the client...