Travis Jeffery

@travis_jeffery@robot.villas

Travis Jeffery's writing on infrastructure engineering, distributed systems, Go, development tools, AI agents, and engineering careers.

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Quartermaster: one conversation, many agents #AI #Agents #DistributedSystems
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Sep 25, 2026
Hiring is a guess. Firing is a choice. #Hiring #Management #Career
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Jan 30, 2026
I built our JIT access system in a day #Infrastructure #DevOps #Security
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Jan 23, 2026
Segment, 2014-2016 #Tech #Engineering #Software
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Dec 9, 2025
25 years of Emacs #Emacs #Software #OpenSource
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Nov 16, 2025
I'll take pkg over internal #Go #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Nov 1, 2019
Keep passwords and secrets out of your logs with Go #Go #DevOps #Security
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Jun 4, 2018
The best books I read in 2017 #Reading #Books #2017
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Feb 1, 2018
"username or password incorrect" is bullshit #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering #Authentication
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Dec 21, 2017
Hiring woes: the costs of bad hires and how to avoid them #Hiring #Careers #Management
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Oct 4, 2017
Manage Datadog with Terraform #DevOps #Infrastructure #Terraform
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Sep 7, 2017
How to persuade in online discussions #Communication #OnlineDiscussions #Persuasion
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Jun 14, 2017
Building a Kafka that doesn't depend on ZooKeeper #Kafka #DistributedSystems #Engineering
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Jan 19, 2017
EC2'S magical address to get instance metadata #CloudComputing #DevOps #AWS
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Nov 29, 2016
How Kafka's Storage Internals Work #Kafka #DistributedSystems #Storage
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Oct 13, 2016
Monitoring with InfluxData's TICK stack #Monitoring #Infrastructure #DevOps
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Sep 23, 2016
Techniques to Achieve High Write Throughput With Elasticsearch #Elasticsearch #Databases #Performance
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Jun 8, 2016
Using Golang and JSON for Kafka Consumption With High Throughput #Go #Kafka #DataEngineering
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May 9, 2016
Graphing Kafka offset lags with StatsD #Kafka #Monitoring #DevOps
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Mar 26, 2016
SSH into EC2 instance with instance ID #DevOps #Cloud #AWS
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Nov 30, 2015
Outbound connections from Docker with VirtualBox not working? #Docker #Virtualization #Networking
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Nov 17, 2015
Building a custom Zendesk app #SoftwareDevelopment #DevTools #AppDevelopment
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Nov 10, 2015
Library and Lambda function to show your Rdio heavy rotation on your website #Programming #WebDev #Music
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Oct 24, 2015
Error responses on Node.js with Koa #Nodejs #Koa #Programming
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Oct 21, 2015
Building infrastructure with Docker, AWS ECS, and Hashicorp's Terraform #DevOps #CloudNative #Infrastructure
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Oct 7, 2015
Piping into a Docker container #Docker #DevOps #Container
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Sep 25, 2015
Writing your own Emacs interactive functions with completion #Emacs #Lisp #Programming
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Sep 11, 2015
Animated nyan cat in the terminal #Terminal #Animation #DevTools
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Jun 25, 2015
Re-architecting Segment's API #SoftwareEngineering #APIDesign #DistributedSystems
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Mar 25, 2015
How to hide Chrome's notification icon in the menu bar #Tech #Software #Development
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Jul 24, 2014
NSURLSession and NSOperationQueue working together = TRVSURLSessionOperation #Development #Programming #iOSDev
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Jun 17, 2014
Added support for promises in mocha v1.18.0 #Go #DevTools #Programming
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Mar 14, 2014
Jasmine-jQuery v2 adding support for Jasmine v2 #Development #Testing #JavaScript
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Jan 13, 2014
Writing @ prefixed macros #Programming #Development #SoftwareEngineering
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Jan 10, 2014
My Xcode plug-in to have Clang format/style your code using the new clang-format #DevTools #Coding #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jan 7, 2014
Text processing with NSLinguisticTagger: implementing Writer Pro's syntax control #Programming #NLP #SoftwareDevelopment
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Dec 25, 2013
Preventing 'IB auto generated at build time for view with fixed frame' when using Auto Layout #Development #iOSDev #AutoLayout
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Nov 28, 2013
URL linking in a non-editable NSTextView #Development #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Nov 9, 2013
Using UIImage, UIColor, UIFont Code on Mac OS X #Development #macOS #Programming
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Nov 2, 2013
Using TextKit to put an image in a text view #iOSDev #SwiftUI #TextKit
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Oct 20, 2013