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• Software Design Delivers Value to Users

  Published: Aug 22, 2026 |  at 02:32 AMUpdated: Oct 3, 2026 |  at 06:03 AM

  How software design principles and thoughtful interfaces make change easier and help teams deliver value to users faster.

  • Thoughts
  • Software Design

• Speaking at New Relic User Group Vol. 10

  Published: Aug 31, 2024 |  at 09:00 AMUpdated: Aug 31, 2024 |  at 09:00 AM

  A look back at my 20-minute talk about Infrastructure as Code for New Relic at NRUG Vol. 10 on June 18, 2024.

  • Thoughts
  • New Relic
  • Speaking
  • Events

Recent Posts

• Bringing Development In-House Requires Selling the Idea to Management

  Published: Oct 3, 2026 |  at 06:16 AM

  Changing how software is developed requires changing the organization. To make that happen, engineers need to explain the business value and win management support.

  • Engineering Management
  • Software Development
  • Thoughts

• What Is a Code Smell?

  Published: Sep 5, 2026 |  at 05:48 AMUpdated: Oct 3, 2026 |  at 06:03 AM

  What code smells are, how experience turns them into intuition, and why that intuition matters in the age of AI.

  • Thoughts
  • Software Design

• Why Communication Matters

  Published: Sep 15, 2024 |  at 06:00 AMUpdated: Oct 3, 2026 |  at 06:03 AM

  Some recent thoughts on communication, technical ability, and working effectively as an engineer.

  • Thoughts

• Blue-Green Deployment on ECS with CloudFront Continuous Deployment

  Published: Apr 22, 2024 |  at 12:00 PMUpdated: Oct 3, 2026 |  at 06:03 AM

  How to route through CloudFront to the staging environment of an ECS blue-green deployment.

  • AWS