Today we’re releasing an update to Ambassador Cloud focused on helping you connect your tools, technologies, and teams in order to deliver your cloud native applications faster and with less bugs. This year, as Docker celebrates its ninth birthday and the CNCF approaches its seven year mark, the landscape of…

I’m excited to introduce myself as the new VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs. I joined the team just a few months ago and am so impressed by the community that has rallied around Telepresence and Emissary-ingress. The community empowers our engineering teams to build better products through testing, feedback…

It’s my favourite time of year. Coziness, the smell of pine and cooking, and of course, deep conversations and thoughts about life. I’ve never been a terribly accomplished goal setter, despite my joy in achieving goals. …

‘Waterfall’ methods of developing product get a bad rap — and for good reason. Building software is extremely expensive, and so building the wrong thing by not integrating user feedback, the major risk of waterfall methods, is something you should avoid like the plague. Except that’s a lie.There are cases…

One 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 intentional method of making and documenting decisions is needed to help everyone stay in the loop. …

Creating and sharing a manager readme/operating manual is a great way to reflect on who you are as a leader, what your leadership philosophy is, and what folks can expect from you. I learned this from Lara Hogan’s wonderful management expectations. If you’re a manager, you probably spend a lot…

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 presence status to “away” permanently. It sounded so terrifying that I had to do it right away. Our globally distributed team uses Slack to communicate…

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 at all, is “well, surely someone is better than nothing. We’re still getting more done than if we didn’t have them”. The context varies…

Today my coach Dani asked a really good, hard question — what would you want from your ultimate manager? Of course I rattled off a laundry list of things where basically this person strikes the perfect balance of nurturing me and giving me lots of feedback and recognition but also…