Raul Chedrese

Everyone hates estimating large software projects. It's fraught with peril. Someone will ask you to estimate a large project and assure you that they won't hold you to that estimate. Inevitably they ar...

Me writing for LeadDev. Turns out Microservices or sadness are not the only two options for working in a legacy codebases....

When I first became a Staff Engineer I struggled to keep up with Code Reviews. I was drowning in review requests from different teams and different parts of the application. I couldn't keep up and I fe...

I recently decided to start blogging but ran into trouble picking a blogging platform. I only had a few requirements. The blog needed to be fast, simple, and support posting from MarsEdit. Unfortunatel...

I'm enjoying the newish 37 Signals dev blog. It's great to see them writing about the patterns and approaches they use especially now that many of them have fallen out of favour. The disti...

It's an exciting time for machine learning. What get's me most excited though is the ability to easily leverage machine learning for building product features. The Elixir community has recently made bi...