Mya Jaye

"Context sprawl" is what happens when agents lean on grep to navigate a codebase — the active window balloons, every request costs more, and compaction hits sooner.

When I joined Gigawatt AI in late 2025, one of my early projects was shaping how we would ingest and store utility meter data at scale.

A reflective look at 2025: navigating employment transitions from an AI company layoff to a startup's founding engineering role, speaking at major conferences, and addressing personal challenges through mental health support.

After struggling with treatment-resistant depression, I sought out EMDR and Ketamine therapy to address the underlying trauma and Complex PTSD.

During OpenSource Summit North America 2025, Josh and I co-presented our thoughts on unifying organizational data (business intelligence, observability, and security) under one single pane of glass.

Formally known as Austin Startup Week, Austin Tech Week provides founders, funders, and freelancers the opportunity to meet, connect, and share with one another.

After 5 months since my last relapse, I figured it was a good time to check in on my recovery.

Back in February, I found myself quite frustrated with many of the "modern" observability stacks on the open source market.

A few months back, I remember seeing some concerning discourse minimizing the impact eating disorders have on someone's life.

Over the summer, I made a more conscious effort to spend dedicated 1-1 time with my child.

Let's take a slight detour from the health and healing series to talk a little more tech.

While it's not something that I actively sought support for during FMLA, loss and grief has been a fairly consistent theme throughout the last few years.

Today, I want to share with you the best investment that I decided to make in my life.

While peer one-on-ones can provide a lot of value, a big argument against them is that they require a lot of time and can cost a lot of money.

I took my Twitter account that I reserved back in 2012 with hundreds of followers and deactivated it.

It doesn't happen a lot, but every so often I come across a device that isn't wi-fi supported.

Recently, I've found myself using [Redis][] for more of the projects that I work on.

Recently, I noticed Renovate submit pull requests for dependencies in my Helm v3 charts.

Historically, my blog has largely been focused on technology.

Many people have asked how to support deploying service mesh to Raspberry Pis.

Path based routing can be an extremely useful feature.

DockerHub's impending download rate limit presents an interesting challenge for some.

Tools like minikube and kind make it easy to get a kubernetes cluster up and running locally.

Indeed had an internal blog series called "Show us Your Setup."

Jsonnet is a powerful data templating language.

Open source software has been used to build organizations for years.

Google's Protocol Buffers can be a power piece of technology.

deps.cloud is an open source project that I started.

In a Twitter thread between Vito Botta, Alex Ellis, and myself, we talked about how expensive DigitalOcean can be for personal projects.

In this post, I bring a conclusion to my recent series on tracking impressions on repositories.

Last week, I put a tracking pixel on my GitHub repositories.

When working on open source projects, I often wonder how to improve the experience for my users.

Last year, I wrote a series of blog posts covering the set-up of my home lab.

In November 2018, I decided to return to Indeed.com.

Over the last year, I've been heavily working on deps.cloud. deps.cloud draws it's inspiration from a project that I worked on at Indeed.com.

Back in July, I found myself needing to better coordinate deployments of my applications to Kubernetes.

When you build a container image, it's typically only built for one platform (linux) and one architecture (amd64).

Yesterday, I decided to switch the license that I apply to my personal projects.

In my last few posts, I talked a bit about my at home development cluster.

Previously, I talked about the different orchestration technologies that I've run on my Raspberry Pi cluster.

Over the last few days, I've been revisiting Kubernetes on my Raspberry Pi cluster.

I was quite surprised to see how under documented installing a 64-bit operating system onto a Raspberry Pi is.

During my first employment at Indeed, I cloned every repository down to my machine.

Every now and then, a friend of mine reaches out and discuss previous projects we had worked on together.

While working at Dosh, I had pretty heavy exposure to managing NodeJS services running in AWS Lambda.

While working at Dosh, I had pretty heavy exposure to managing NodeJS services running in AWS Lambda.

While working at Indeed, I did a fair amount with gRPC.

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Component scanning packages can be both your best friend and worst nightmare.