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In our latest set of Sledgecasts I work through the problem of merging k sorted lists.

Jenkins has been a stalwart aid in all of the CI/CD projects I have worked on.

Sledgeworx has completed our first Getting into Software interview with Craig Freeman.

I have been reading ‘Software Estimation’ by Steve McConnell which is about estimating software projects.

Sledgeworx is happy to announce the release of the Code Review Handbook.

I do most of my work in the Go ecosystem and rely heavily on the go fmt tool to maintain style consistency across the team.

Sledgeworx is my platform to share ideas with the world.

SledgeCast is a collection of screen casts focused around programming topics including code reviews, open source projects, interview preparation, and anything software!

A common problem when reviewing pull requests is large diffs of formatting changes.

Here is the 2nd SledgeCast, this time we take a look at the storage package in prometheus and make a discovery!

While the 2017 crypto bubble has turned into a drawn out 2018 slide, a new specter has entered the web monetization scene, in-browser cryptocurrency mining.

I have been doing on one one meetings with my team for the last couple months.

I started focusing on Programming for my career after my sophomore year of college.

The best way to prepare for interviews is to build websites in a similar way to what you would do in the working world. ### Programming skills Basics ### 1.

If you have never programmed before, how can you tell if you have the talent needed at the professional level?

The way I see it there are 3 core skills that are important in corporate software engineering environments, understanding logical trees, finding solutions to obscure problems on the internet, and making sure you write the right solution to the problem.

In an age where Software is gradually taking over everything starting from your computer and spreading to your fridge or your car it might seem late to get into software, but it is not.

About a week ago on a particularly cold morning with fresh snow and ice on the streets, I decided to try working from home again.

I had the opportunity to take the CKA, ‘Certified Kubernetes Administrator’ exam because my employer is trying to get ‘Certified Kubernetes Service Provider’ status, which requires 3 certified administrators.

I launched two websites in 2017, yourfoods.info and sledgianowski.com.

In 2017 I had the opportunity to spend a year working as a devops or platform engineer.

When running a team you need to balance bus factor and performance.

Changing KPIs — Moving from individual contributor to team lead.

I started a couple projects recently, a mock crypto exchange and my latest project a unicode manipulation library.

The first video in the SledgeCast code review series explores the Prometheus codebase!

Coding Challenges have become a common step in the Software engineering interview process.

I had some trouble getting the info I needed to setup pprof in my program.