Writings about CI/CD, DevOps and other software engineering topicshttps://telliott.me/en-usFri, 27 Mar 2026 02:59:21 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/why-merge-queues/https://telliott.me/posts/why-merge-queues/You might have heard of merge queues. You might even have used one at work. If so, you might even hate them. But if you've never used them before, how do you decide if your engineering team would benefit from a merge queue?Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/how-friendly-are-your-rate-limits/https://telliott.me/posts/how-friendly-are-your-rate-limits/Comparing two rate limiting strategies, one that's (almost) pleasant to work with, another that is very much not.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/tech-interviewing-will-always-be-broken/https://telliott.me/posts/tech-interviewing-will-always-be-broken/Technical interviews have changed a lot over the years. Various kinds of interviews have drawn various kinds of complaint. We can make it better, but it'll still always be a bit broken.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/how-much-code-should-you-review/https://telliott.me/posts/how-much-code-should-you-review/There's no escaping it, AI is writing a lot of code. Some great, some needing human intervention. But how to we focus our review efforts to catch the bugs without getting overwhelmed?Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/approving-deployments-with-github-actions/https://telliott.me/posts/approving-deployments-with-github-actions/Exploring some new technologies and techniques being used at my new jobFri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/rehousing-my-blog/https://telliott.me/posts/rehousing-my-blog/I've been dissatisfied with SubStack for a little while, and finally got my act together to move to a self-hosted site where I have more control.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/is-github-getting-less-reliable/https://telliott.me/posts/is-github-getting-less-reliable/It's been a bad couple of weeks for GitHub reliability, but how does this compare to their previous performance? I pulled some data from their status page to find out.Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/plur1bus-accidental-ai-allegory/https://telliott.me/posts/plur1bus-accidental-ai-allegory/Is Plur1bus secretly about AI? Officially, no, but that didn't stop me seeing shadows of GPUs in almost every scene.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/yes-you-should-still-learn-to-code/https://telliott.me/posts/yes-you-should-still-learn-to-code/Join me as I recount a recent experience with an enthusiastic but wrong LLM and what I had to do to dig out of the hole.Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/we-wont-need-ci-in-5-years/https://telliott.me/posts/we-wont-need-ci-in-5-years/The way we build software is changing, and the way we deploy is going to have to change right along with it. What we consider to be "good" CI today may be very different from tomorrow's definitionFri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-5-conclusions/https://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-5-conclusions/It's been a month and a half since I started working on a Git-backed REST API. High time to wrap it up and answer the dang question already!Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-4-stability/https://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-4-stability/My git-backed REST API is performant and can even handle concurrent requests, but is it production ready? Here's how I went about making it stable.Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/winding-down-ocuroot/https://telliott.me/posts/winding-down-ocuroot/After 18 months of working on Ocuroot, I think it's time to move on. It's been a heck of a ride and quite the learning experience!Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/looking-below-the-surface-of-git/https://telliott.me/posts/looking-below-the-surface-of-git/You may or may not have heard about trees in Git, but you've definitely worked with them! This post provides an overview of what trees are, how they fit together and walks through an example.Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-3-concurrency/https://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-3-concurrency/Now the Git-backed REST API is a bit more performant, I focus on what happens when you have multiple users at once.Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-2-git/https://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-2-git/Running a REST API off of the Git CLI tool was slow to say the least. Can I make the API a little faster by interacting with the Git server more directly?Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-1-the/https://telliott.me/posts/can-git-back-a-rest-api-part-1-the/Git is basically a fancy file store with history, so can it be applied to use cases other than source control? Come with me as I try to repurpose Git into a backing store for a simple REST APIFri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/iac-bootstrap-problem/https://telliott.me/posts/iac-bootstrap-problem/When working with IaC platforms, there's usually some infra you need to configure to get them working. With Terraform, you need somewhere to keep your state, for example. How do you configure this infra? Are you stuck doing it manually, or could you automate it?Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/whats-with-all-these-cloud-outages/https://telliott.me/posts/whats-with-all-these-cloud-outages/Some thoughts on the recent run of internet-breaking cloud provider outages. Are they symptoms of a change in the industry at large, or just a run of bad luck?Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/things-i-learned-about-git/https://telliott.me/posts/things-i-learned-about-git/Over the years, I got into a narrow routine when using Git for day-to-day development. Now I'm building tools around Git, I'm discovering all kinds of features I'd never noticed before. Here are my favorite three.Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/a-shallow-introduction-to-queueing/https://telliott.me/posts/a-shallow-introduction-to-queueing/Queueing theory can be incredibly useful, but potentially dense for those of us who aren't mathematically inclined (myself included), so let's look at the basics in their simplest form.Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/big-terraform-modules/https://telliott.me/posts/big-terraform-modules/It might be tempting to put all your infrastructure into a single Terraform module for simplicity. But as you scale, this approach will start slowing you down. Here's what can do wrong and how you can address it.Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/demystifying-the-postmortem-from/https://telliott.me/posts/demystifying-the-postmortem-from/Amazon put out a postmortem for the recent us-east-1 disruption, and it is dense to say the least. Here's my interpretation. Hint: it wasn't a "kill switch" or rogue AI.Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/how-parallelizing-your-builds-can/https://telliott.me/posts/how-parallelizing-your-builds-can/Or at least, make it seem that way! This post explores what happens to your CI pipelines when all your workers are busy.Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://telliott.me/posts/coding-on-the-subway-with-ona-formerly/https://telliott.me/posts/coding-on-the-subway-with-ona-formerly/For years, I've been idly hoping for a decent option for working on projects from my phone. Ona's move to agent-based dev environments offers an interesting new option. But can it be a daily driver?Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT