What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Actually Does

Almost every software company that I’ve ever…

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Read from Replicas

The data access layer of a million-dollar idea starts out as a single-server relational database. You’re hardly worried about scale issues – you have an application to write! However, if your million-dollar idea ends up being worth…

What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Actually Does

Part 2: The Mindset and Focus of the Role

If you missed it, I talked about the specifics of the Sr Staff SWE role in Part 1. In this section, I want to focus more on how I think about the…

Cache is the Root of All Evil

Avoiding Pitfalls of Common Caching Techniques

No Regrets: My Time in Management Wasn’t Wasted

As I’ve previously written, I spent a brief stint as a manager before ultimately deciding that management really isn’t for me and I moved back to the individual contributor track. When I’m talking to people, one of the common follow up questions…

Zero Downtime Migration from HBase to Bigtable

Box has traditionally utilized compute-services hosted in its own data centers…

A Trip Down the DNS Rabbit Hole: Understanding the Role of Kubernetes, Golang, libc, systemd

Logging at Box: More efficient and more cost effective!

Allowing Ada to View her Files: Box’s Attribute Based Access Control Solution

10 lessons learnt scaling Redshift Cluster at Box