PinnedShay Dratler·Dec 6, 2025Finding My Brain Again in the Middle of the AI Fire hoseI haven’t written in a long time. Not because I had nothing to say — if anything, I’ve had too much to say.
PinnedShay Dratler·Dec 5, 2022Down the rabbit hole and into memory leak laneYou’re a software engineer, and you’ve just joined a new team whose assignment is to increase and improve monitoring. While working on this…
PinnedShay Dratler·Feb 14, 2023Embrace the changes, and love the problemsYou’ve just joined a new team, but the technology being used isn’t implemented quite as you’d expect. What should (or shouldn’t) you do?
PinnedShay Dratler·Apr 18, 2023How to optimize graceful shutdown in Kubernetes and avoid customer impactMany applications and services leverage Kubernetes infrastructure from day one. Yet, the out-of-the-box solution might not allow you to…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedShay Dratler·Nov 3, 2022How an OpEx mindset can give you a better night’s sleepYou are a talented software developer who is on-call for the night.. It’s past midnight, and you are suddenly notified that your system…
Shay Dratler·Dec 23, 2025Your AI IDE is Brilliant, But It Doesn’t Know Your Company’s DNAAI tools in our editors are powerful force multipliers, yet they often fail at the most critical task: understanding how your specific team…
Shay Dratler·Mar 24, 2025From Code to Curiosity: My Leap into Innovation ResearchA Shift in PerspectiveA response icon1A response icon1
Shay Dratler·Sep 16, 2024The Secret Weapon in Software Testing: Why Mapping is Your Integration Testing Superpowercreated via nightcafe: developer looking at a complex system
Shay Dratler·Feb 7, 2024Effective Strategies for Reducing the Blast Radius in DeploymentsYour company suddenly informed you that you need to do a critical change like moving from a Data Center into a cloud solution , moving…
Shay Dratler·Aug 14, 2023Changing the game — Strategies for transitioning to micro-services and nano-servicesIn recent years, “microservices” and “nanoservices” have become major buzzwords. I’ve collaborated with many teams who have actively…A response icon1A response icon1
