PinnedMy cheap WFH whiteboard setupThe freedom and flexibility of whiteboard makes it a great tool of communication. Unfortunately when the pandemic happened and we started to WFH (work from home), we found ourselves communicating through camera and microphone over VC (video conference). Luckily, the whiteboard made a quick turn back to my toolset with…Work From Home3 min read
PinnedReusing my contentA quick guide on how to use my content — First of all, thanks for your interest. It’s humbling to see that you want to help those ideas reach a wider audience. There are two main reasons people reach out to ask permission to use my content: Translating it to other languages Publishing it in Medium publications or other sites …2 min read
PinnedMy guiding principles after 20 years of programming🇨🇳 FLMN kindly translated this to Chinese here. 🇪🇸 Manuel Conde kindly translated this to Spanish here. 🇷🇺 apprently it is translated to Russian here. I’ve been programming since 1999 and this year I’ve officially coded for 20+ years. I started with Basic but soon jumped into Pascal and C…Programming6 min read
Apr 1Reflections after 1 month of Working at Volvo CarsI joined Volvo Cars exactly one month ago and here are the 2 most interesting and unique things I’ve observed so far: 1. On the road workstations While the rest of the world is still trying to figure out sensible remote work policies, we already have a great next-level policy in place: all employees are…Remote Work4 min read
Published in Volvo Cars Engineering·Mar 286 ways staff engineers help reach clarityOne of the things that I catch myself doing more and more as a staff engineer is to help individuals, teams or sometimes the organisation reach clarity. …Startup13 min read
Feb 28Why am I joining Volvo?What do Google, Spotify, Facebook, Amazon, Datadog and Shopify have in common? I’ve been contacted by their recruiters over the past 4 years. However, one way or another some “P” was missing in my 4P career evaluation system. Nonetheless, I have worked at Discovery, Schibsted, Philips, Klarna and a few…Careers15 min read
Feb 25Dissecting the S3 SLAA previous article discussed some practical advice when setting the SLA. In this article, let’s dissect an example SLA to see what it actually means. If you want to write one, WorkOS has a good blog post. Disclaimer: I’m not a law expert. I’m just a SRE reading through what…Sre8 min read
Feb 21I didn’t quit YOU!TLDR; Everyone is in the best place they can be, given their potentials, priorities and possibilities. Mine changed over time. Simple as that. Look at it as graduation, not leaving you personally! Let’s keep in touch. From my own experience when someone leaves a company, it’s easy for the remaining…Career Paths4 min read
Feb 17The ownership trioThe success of “you build it, you run it” revolves around ownership. Ownership has 3 aspects that go hand in hand. If one or more are missing the ownership trio is broken and ultimately the team and the business suffer. Let’s see what those aspects mean: Knowledge Have a good grasp…Dev Ops6 min read
Jan 30Calculating the SLA of a system behind a CDNThis article builds on a previous and uses what we’ve learned to calculate the SLA of a system that is behind a CDN. If you want to read that one, here it is: Calculating composite SLA How to serial and parallel dependencies affect the total SLAalexewerlof.medium.com Cache The content delivery network (CDN) is comprised of multiple caches spread across the globe in what’s called…Sla4 min read
