This article accompanies the talk and shares a preview of references for the Slack engineering blog article on how Slack implemented circuit breakers in internal tooling.
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Essays by Frank Chen, co-founder and CTO of Balto Energy, on AI agents, knowledge systems, developer infrastructure, and behavior design — what actually ships vs. what demos well.
How Tracing Uncovers Half-truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure
How Slack Transformed Their CI With Tracing
This article compiles resources on how Slack solved problems using tracing. I’ve given this talk a few times and hoped to share references and links for folk to get started in this space.
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A Timeless Software Developer Reading List
The 24 books that I recommend to software developers
Learning software development is a fundamental skill in today’s world.
I hoped to share a list of books for understanding and growing in software development. I have shared parts of this list with team members who join my team or who I mentor.
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10 Days of Silent Meditation
Actionable knowledge from my journey to join a Goenka meditation workshop
I recently joined a 10 day meditation workshop after procrastinating for years, despite “knowing” of meditation’s benefits. Every one’s path to meditation is different. This article is my [meanering] story to deepen my practice and how I came to join a workshop.
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Relationship Hack with Slack
A Six Month Experiment
Haley and I have been using Slack as a primary way to communicate in the past 6 months, and its been an authenticity and delight creating relationship hack.
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“Why Your App Got Deleted…” Behavioral Antipatterns for Product Design
Many apps get deleted. How can you make sure your app doesn’t get deleted? This essay shares patterns and antipatterns for product design
Notice how many the apps on your phone don’t get used.
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The Ultimate Beginners Guide To Web Development
Lessons from the Web Lead of an Amazon Web Service
My friends love learning. This guide is an amalgamation of emails I have sent friends and things I have picked up in my journey to learn web development [1]. By the end of this guide you’ll be able to answer the following questions: “How might I build a personal website...
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Writing Workflow
Building a System that Lasts
This article is about the steps I’ve taken to iterate upon my writing workflow. I’m writing this partially as documentation of how to structure a writing project in the same way as a software project.
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How to Design for Habit
The Secret to Making Great Products
Let’s say you created a product. A product that solves a common specific problem for many people. Yet, after a sign-up or an application download for your solution, people continue to have the same problem and do not use your product. “Why?!” Why might someone continue to have a problem...
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Playlist Your Morning Routine
Beat Complexity like a Boss
Some mornings start off awesome, and the day stays awesome. Other mornings start slow and create slowness throughout the day. These slow days suck.
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