Matt Burman

A tale of Distributed Context

Observability. It's a Buzzword, but critical for understanding failures across a large organisation of distributed services. Context is critical for debugging across team and service boundaries. This is the story of how we came to implement Distributed Tracing to improve our Observability.

kubernetes

How I scored 97% in the CKAD exam - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

I have been using Kubernetes since 2019 for personal use on GKE and using clusters at work. That was NOT enough to pass! I assumed that it would not take much effort to pass this exam. I was wrong. Whilst I had most of the knowledge I needed, I did not realise just how fast you need to be.

programming

Git Blame - the new starters best friend

Firstly, Git Blame's name is a bit silly. I propose renaming it git who-what-where-when-why or git 5w for short. From the command-line, it outputs the file you specify, but each line is annotated with who changed it last, the commit message, and when it was changed. That's not the most

quantified self

Design your optimal human condition algorithmically

How could we optimise the human condition using the personal data around us?

value

On Value, and why my degree isn’t valuable

* excuse the clickbait title, I promise this article is more balanced! There are things that others value highly, which I do not value at all. There are things that others value highly, which I never valued at all. There are things that I value highly, which others do not value

Quantity over Quality — Attend lots of Hackathons

The first few Hackathons may be hard. You may not be happy with what you produce. You may compare yourself to everyone else and feel bad about it. But keep persevering and you will come through it a great developer. Things get easier. Quantity over quality *from *Art & Fear

github

Use of GitHub for event organisation

The first part of the GitHub campus experts’ training is to write an impact proposal. My impact proposal was largely focused on ensuring future generations of organisers can effectively inherit the existing organisation and continue to make the community their own. Specifically - the concept of knowledge transfer was very