Published inAmbassador LabsUpgrading to K8s 1.22 Requires Emissary-ingress/AES 2.X: Why, How, and What You Need to DoGiven that Kubernetes 1.21 is End of Life on June 28th, we advise users who are upgrading their Kubernetes clusters to upgrade Ambassador…Jun 13, 2022Jun 13, 2022
Published inAmbassador LabsAmbassador Cloud Connects Your Toolchains, Technologies, and Teams to Supercharge Your Cloud Native…Today we’re releasing an update to Ambassador Cloud focused on helping you connect your tools, technologies, and teams in order to deliver…Apr 21, 2022Apr 21, 2022
Published inAmbassador Labs2021 Wrap-Up: Announcing Emissary-ingress 2.1, Telepresence 2.4.9As 2021 comes to a close, we’re excited to share the latest updates on Emissary-ingress and Telepresence and thank our awesome open source…Dec 21, 2021Dec 21, 2021
A Year in Review Reflection TemplateI’m not a huge goal setter, since I prefer having values or themes and then being opportunistic in searching for ways to follow through on…Dec 10, 20181Dec 10, 20181
Would you rather be late — or wrong? A strategic case for Waterfall development‘Waterfall’ methods of developing product get a bad rap — and for good reason. Building software is extremely expensive, and so building…Jul 20, 20187Jul 20, 20187
Documenting Decisions in a Remote TeamOne of the questions I hear most about our globally distributed team at Buffer is “how do you document decisions”? In a remote team, a more…Jun 4, 201810Jun 4, 201810
Why and How to share your Manager README (plus here’s mine)Creating and sharing a manager readme/operating manual is a great way to reflect on who you are as a leader, what your leadership…Apr 8, 20185Apr 8, 20185
Published inBuffer StoriesI Turned Slack Off for a Week. Here’s What Happened.I recently read Jason Fried’s Medium post on the presence prison, which challenges the reader to “break free” of the green dot and set your…Jan 25, 20187Jan 25, 20187
When Is No-one Better Than The Wrong Person?A phrase I’ve heard quite a bit lately when discussing roles on a product engineering team, or whether a given engineer should be on a team…Nov 21, 20172Nov 21, 20172
See Something, Say Something : What leaders can do to build a healthy feedback cultureToday my coach Dani asked a really good, hard question — what would you want from your ultimate manager? Of course I rattled off a laundry…Aug 2, 20171Aug 2, 20171
Published inBuffer StoriesHow to create a work culture that beats burnoutTill the roof comes off, till the lights go out Till my legs give out, can’t shut my mouth Till the smoke clears out, am I high? Perhaps…Jun 9, 2017Jun 9, 2017
Published inBuffer StoriesHow playlists made me a better managerBefore you say context-switching is the worst, hear me out — being a manager, I was getting tired from the effort of context-switching and…Apr 26, 20176Apr 26, 20176
Published inBuffer StoriesHow to navigate a leadership transitionThis is what I googled the morning Sunil resigned. Now, I’m writing the piece that I needed to read that morning when the interweb seemed…Feb 12, 20171Feb 12, 20171
Published inBuffer StoriesThe two pillars of engineering leadershipI find it helpful to think of engineering leadership as having two pillars: management, and technical leadership. I first came to this…Jan 23, 20171Jan 23, 20171
Three Questions to Ask Yourself Before Becoming a ManagerMaker and manager are often orthogonal roles, with very little overlap. There are a lot of differences between being an engineer and being…Oct 31, 2016Oct 31, 2016
Give away that lego.There’s this temptation to hang onto tasks and not let others take over that I’ve heard about a lot. It’s a truth universally acknowledged…Aug 26, 2016Aug 26, 2016
How to survive your first 30 days as a managerIt feels ridiculous for me to write about being an engineering manager. It’s a job I’ve done for not even 30 days yet. But that’s what I…Aug 25, 20164Aug 25, 20164
Why Talking about Diversity is So Hard (and how we might make it easier)For a long time, almost as long as I’ve been a member of the exclusive “Women in Tech” club, I’ve avoided talking about diversity. I…Feb 24, 20166Feb 24, 20166
Can Anyone Learn to Code?Today, I read something that made me sad. It was a post that argued only some (special, smart, talented) people have the innate ability to…Dec 14, 20155Dec 14, 20155
