The Principal Engineer

The Principal Engineer is focused on the intersection between business, tech, software, and how to work to create impact. Sometimes, we may go a little off-topic, but never too far.
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When is a CTO not a CTO?
3 Dec 2024 | original ↗

Title inflation is real. Many of the individuals in industry with the title "CTO", really are no such thing. Let's dig deeper!

Old school architectures making a return, part 3: escaping the Hyperscalers
26 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Nobody ever got fired for buying AWS. But maybe they should be?

Old school architectures making a return, part 2: Backend rendered webapps
18 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Separating backend and frontend is an evolutionary dead-end, or at least frequently, a complication.

Old school architectures making a return, part 1: Monoliths
12 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Over the last decade, microservices have dominated the software landscape, but could we see a retracement of their use? I think this is almost a certainty.

State of the Linux Desktop
10 Nov 2024 | original ↗

As a long-time Mac user, I've asked myself the eternal question: is this the year of Linux on the desktop? Here is what I found out after a year of incremental buy-in..

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