I'm an Engineer at The @ Company, building the @platform, a technology that is putting people in control of their data and removing the frictions and surveillance associated with today’s Internet. I was previously a Fellow at DXC Technology where I held various CTO roles. Before that I held CTO and Director of R&D roles at Cohesive Networks, UBS, Capital SCF and Credit Suisse, where I worked on app servers, compute grids, security, mobile, cloud, networking and containers.
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Mar 25, 2022 · 2 min read · For a long while we ran The atPlatform on Ubuntu Linux, but we found that doing stuff with nodes on a large Docker Swarm spiked CPU usage for cloud-init. Every start or stop of a container was a change to networking, and every change to networking ca...
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Oct 8, 2021 · 4 min read · TL;DR A colleague recently suggested a change that I thought wouldn't work, so my first response was 'you can waste your time trying that'. But then I realised that the change itself was trivial, and I didn't need to spend time setting up a test envi...
Join discussionSep 14, 2021 · 4 min read · GitHub recently launched a beta for their new project boards, which provide a lot more flexibility than the old Kanban boards. I've been excited about the new functionality ever since I heard of the 'Memex' project. With the new boards comes a new A...
Join discussionAug 3, 2021 · 4 min read · Last week I wrote about easier automation using GitHub Actions to build multi architecture Docker images. That led me to another question - how to create the binaries to go into those builds? If I'm making an Arm image, then I need an Arm binary to g...
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Jul 9, 2021 · 2 min read · Dart introduced Sound null safety with version 2.12, so we've recently been very busy making sure all our stuff supports it. That also means ensuring that all of our underlying dependencies are ready for Null safety too. In most cases we're using pop...
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