After I wrote my blog last week, I got a great response from one of my company’s front end engineers. She encouraged me to check out her team’s Formik components since they put the concepts I’ve studied into practice. I’m always happy to get guidance from another engineer, so I…

Formik is a React framework that makes our form-writing lives easier. I’m in the process of learning about it this week, but really I should have learned about it last week when an enthusiastic coworker offered to give me a crash course. I should have understood that their enthusiasm was…

Last week, I learned about how to write a DAG in Airflow. That knowledge came in very handy this week, as about five different Airflow-related bugs were sent my way. One particularly sticky problem was a script that failed five days in a row because of a lack of memory…

Here’s the experience I generally have when my company starts migrating a process to a new service: Hear about the change at an all-hands. Understand nothing that is said because it all has to do with graphs and clouds and clusters and streams. …

My favorite part of my job is writing familiar code in familiar codebases. I like being in a place where I know how most of the pieces connect, recognize the patterns, and have my environment set up so that I can run code locally and debug. It’s a special feeling. …

I think that my favorite way to learn is to run someone else’s code and log/debug/edit it to understand how it works. I got that opportunity this week when I was trying to figure out how certain rows were filtered in a Postgres database. The query looked something like this: …

There’s something unique about writing a beautiful SQL query only to be told that the data…doesn’t look right. WELL THAT’S WHAT THE TABLE SAYS, I say to my computer screen before taking a deep breath and writing a measured response thanking the reviewer for their feedback and promising to look…

I’ve only worked as a Solutions Engineer, but this may be a universal experience in the world of tech. We’re faced with a problem because of a decision made by the architects of our systems. Maybe they weren’t considering a use case that is now more important to our workflow…

A big part of my company’s software involves collecting data submitted by users who sign up for our service on a client site. For example, a user can submit their email, then our client can use our service to…send them an email. But sometimes they might also want that email…