My Experience Using Hugo

Disclaimer: this blog post is somewhat off topic in that it focuses on blogging more than backend software development. I think you will find this post informative if you have any interest in blogging, static site generation, or Go. This post starts with a full example of using Hugo to create a simple blog. It...

Lessons From Adopting Go at Qualtrics

Back in September 2017, I teamed up with a coworker to give a presentation for the Utah Golang User Group. We chose to share the lessons we had learned as we adopted and scaled Go as one of the core programming languages at Qualtrics. Our intended audience was companies and developers who were interested in...

Top 10 Books for New Software Engineers

I'm excited to share my top ten list of books new Software Engineers should invest in reading! These books have proved foundational in helping me transition from student to developer and deepen my skills. First, a disclaimer: there are some great books missing from this list because I haven't read them yet. I want this...

What This Blog is All About

"Backended"? There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things (Phil Karlton). Or, my favorite variant: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors (Unknown) Naming is hard. Backended isn't a real word. "Back ended" and its hyphened form "back-ended"...