Wrapping Up GoTo Engineering BootcampI remember when I had just woken up from my routine nap and received that fateful email. The email was none other than an offering letter to join GoTo, the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia, via their bootcamp program. The GoTo engineering bootc...Jun 23, 2025 · 4 min readblog.jeremyalv.com
Engineering For Product Velocity: The Case For CI/CDIn their 2023 annual letter, Stripe mentioned that they deploy code to production up to 400 times per day, impacting services in the scale of handling trillions of dollars. Let’s pause. What does 400 deployments a day actually mean, even? Product Vel...May 18, 2025 · 4 min readblog.jeremyalv.com
Understanding Your System State With Prometheus MonitoringFinding Needles In The (Distributed Systems) Haystack Let’s imagine that you’re an engineer at Google. Your organization manages hundreds of thousands of services for your search, cloud, and advertising business, deployed in multiple machines across ...May 10, 2025 · 4 min readblog.jeremyalv.com
Open-Closed Principle in Software DevelopmentHave you ever introduced a new feature, only to realize that it requires you to modify code in many other parts of the system? This phenomenon is a well known anti-pattern in software development, called “shotgun surgery.” It leads to difficulty of m...May 1, 2025 · 5 min readblog.jeremyalv.com
The Incredible Engineering of Chip Making MachinesHave a look at your phone. Ever wondered what’s in it? The answer: billions of integrated circuits consisting of many subcomponents working together to make your phone “just work.” Computers (including our phones) are just pieces of sand, silicon, an...Apr 24, 2025 · 2 min readblog.jeremyalv.com
