Jean-Mark is an articulate, customer-focused, visionary with extensive industry experience encompassing front and back end development in all phases of software development. He lives "outside the box" in pursuit of architectural elegance and relevant, tangible solutions. He is a strong believer that team empowerment fosters genius and is versed at working solo.
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Dec 23, 2025 · 8 min read · Introduction I've found a new love - custom instrumentation, and I can’t keep it to myself. We manually increased the custom instrumentation in one of our newer services and loved the impact. The instrumentation accelerated forensic investigations, r...
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Feb 17, 2025 · 8 min read · Introduction In my last I talked about the importance of shipping smaller PRs. In this article I’ll give some practical examples for how PRs can be split into smaller chunks. The examples aren’t organized into specific themes. Rather they’re arbitrar...
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Dec 25, 2024 · 5 min read · Introduction Welcome to my very scientific paper where I propose that small PRs ship faster than big ones. I will construct my hypothesis with carefully crafted examples, concrete evidence and lots of words and sentences in general. I guarantee there...
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Oct 17, 2024 · 6 min read · Introduction Today I’ll talk about an endpoint that initially performed under 30ms, then crept up to ~500ms after a couple months. Our investigation revealed that a query, powered by a compound index was responsible for the elevated latency. We explo...
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Sep 12, 2024 · 8 min read · Introduction Dear Editor, hear my plea. I pen this piece in earnest search of enlightenment, or the beginnings of a well needed change; we need better database observability! Specifically, more granular, and useful database spans. Coarse, high-level ...
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