Staff Engineer and Tech Lead @thefarmersdog. Organizer @devopsdaysnyc. Learner @LFISoftware. Bluesky: @kuritz.dev

Joined July 2019
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20 May 2024
lol we built farmers dog with dogs running around the office at all times. i stepped away to clean up so many accidents, and none of the dogs were mine.
17 May 2024
If you want to understand why your 22-28 year old staff have wildly confused understanding of professional norms - there's currently a (mildly satirical) LinkedIn post by a WFH SDR talking about how he spends a bunch of time throughout his "average day" changing diapers of his (super cute) 2 month old and reading books to and playing with his (super cute) 2 year old while calling and booking meetings. The post has like 500 likes and 100 comments with people celebrating this. Again: LinkedIn (and Instagram and Tiktok) is actively installing brainworms in your staff. You have to counter it. I love kids as much as the next person - but being a hybrid childcare provider and sales person is unacceptable.
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17 May 2024
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Ah! You should pay other companies to do it, always, to the extent that they can. But every company needs a (thin?) layer of customization between their PaaS and their applications. Glue code, pipelines, component configs. That you will always have to build yourself.
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16 May 2024
Let’s make this a thing! :) I actually just did it at @DevOpsDaysPHL Who’s next?
“No one tells the story of the incident that didn’t happen.” -- @allspaw
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15 May 2024
The first Platform Engineering NY meetup is being planned for June! Have a talk for the community? Reach out to myself, @sudomateo, @clesleycode, or @sfurino
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6 Nov 2023
Git is far from ergonomic, but I find it interesting this resonates with so many. Why does this happen? What is the friction to actually learning how it works?
You never really learn git, you just get used to it.
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5 Nov 2023
Truth, unfortunately. Also doesn’t matter if you work in tech.
Feels like if you’re Jewish and work in tech, Miami is the best city to be in the US right now
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1 Nov 2023
This was a ton of fun! Got to share a bit how thinking about engineering in terms of platform and product at TFD, among a few other things :)
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1 Nov 2023
Probably a good time to shout out that we're hiring Senior Engineering Manager Senior Platform Engineer Senior Software Engineer Director of Product Management Group Product Manager, Health Platform Senior Product Manager, Trial & Subscriber Experience thefarmersdog.com/careers#op…
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31 Oct 2023
The perks of being a dog person 🧡
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Matt Kuritz retweeted
Halloween is for the dogs.
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I got 3-4 fresh React dramas on my feed right now. Here’s what I suggest we do about it: Shrooms
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29 Oct 2023
Server actions is the frontend version of sequelize hooks. A lot of people are going to find themselves in a world of hurt in a few years.
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29 Oct 2023
Theres a lot of flexible software that lets you hurt yourself. Git, jenkins, k8s are some things that come to mind for me, and they get there share of flack (especially k8s).
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29 Oct 2023
The difference with hooks and actions is they’re purely convenience. Best to avoid unless your really confident you can establish enforce a correct, strict standard for usage.
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Matt Kuritz retweeted
I can’t believe this is happening soon!
Save the session: Join @clesleycode from @nytimes as we dive into DevOps sociotechnical principles, community-driven support systems, and platform architecture, all through the lens of the feature development cycle. reg.githubuniverse.com/flow/…
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26 Oct 2023
Do you know someone that loves dogs and devops? Please let them know we are hiring a Sr Platform Engineer at The Farmer's Dog: boards.greenhouse.io/thefarm…

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26 Oct 2023
A question we are currently considering is if and how we should automate or allow self-provisioning of cloud infra by product teams. We currently collaborate on terraform PRs using atlantis. In general, we prefer to focus on the fundamentals and avoid building the wrong thing.
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26 Oct 2023
But over the long run we strive and take steps towards providing a higher degree of ownership for our product teams. The platform team should support and be a resource, but never a blocker or required handoff to deliver product.
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