JAJeremy Alvainblog.jeremyalv.com·Aug 24, 2025 · 17 min readBuilding ConvictionI was still a clueless kid when I first entered university (in some ways, I still am). Over the past four years, I’ve developed a clue on several things, and have yet to develop them on others. As I bring a close to my university years, I wanted to r...00
JAJeremy Alvainblog.jeremyalv.com·Jun 23, 2025 · 4 min readWrapping 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...00
JAJeremy Alvainblog.jeremyalv.com·May 18, 2025 · 4 min readEngineering 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...00
JAJeremy Alvainblog.jeremyalv.com·May 10, 2025 · 4 min readUnderstanding 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 ...00
JAJeremy Alvainblog.jeremyalv.com·May 1, 2025 · 5 min readOpen-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...00
