Paul Osman

tl;dr I’m writing a book about the history of web architecture.

A few years ago, I bought a SolidRun Honeycomb LX2.

I recently had to write a query planner for a graph store.

We’re in new paradigm territory with generative AI.

A coworker asked me if I ever write about difficult bugs I’ve encountered.

I recently started a new role working on data infrastructure at LinkedIn.

I recently left my job at Honeycomb.

I was having a conversation with another software engineer the other day and they asked for my thoughts on various programming languages and paradigms.

Software systems are sociotechnical.

Software is a big space and in the span of a career, you can move in a bunch of different directions, all interesting to different people.

Throughout my career, I’ve developed some opinions.

For most of us in Central Texas, the cyclocross season ended with the Texas State Age & Skill Based Championships in Georgetown, TX.

Early in the year, when I decided to sign up for my first triathlon, I remember thinking that I would do a Sprint and Olympic distance and that’d be it - mission accomplished.

A few weeks ago I competed in my first triathlon - a super sprint distance race aptly named the Rookie Tri.

I was in New Orleans, LA at the beginning of 2014.

On June 7th and 8th, I’ll be joining the Ride to Conquer Cancer — a two day ride from Toronto, Ontario to Niagara Falls (that’s just over 200km).

Building great teams is hard.

I’ve always been interested in cross-language service frameworks.

I’ve had some people ask me about the through argument supported by Django’s ManyToManyField class.

I’ve been thinking about signup processes lately and what we can do with batucada (the next drumbeat.org) to make it easier, while encouraging users to use open, decentralized identity technologies like OpenID.

This is pretty old news, but I missed the original announcement and I think it’s pretty interesting.

This article will provide a brief introduction to mod_python, a tour of what you can do with it, and some pointers to further resources should you want to explore it in more depth.