Archive - Yak Shaving

Why do we need a bias parameter in neural networks?

Changing the weight of the function changes the steepness of the sigmoid, but sometimes we need to be able to shift the function, right wards or…

Dec 26, 2023 •

Siddharth Sarda

May 2021

Service Health and Health Checks

We were talking about health check endpoints(/health) for a service in our team standup yesterday. These checks are usually used by some kind of work…

May 13, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

April 2021

Time in Distributed Systems

Confusion that never stops, Closing walls and ticking clocks

Apr 11, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

March 2021

Learning Distributed Systems

A self directed learning path and foundational material

Mar 24, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

Something important for someone important

What to work on?

Mar 13, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

February 2021

Ashby's Law and Managing Software Entropy

Why one size fits all doesn't work

Feb 7, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

December 2020

Developer Progression as a function of navigating complexity

How to become a (more) senior developer

Dec 30, 2020 •

Siddharth Sarda

Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners

How to organise product teams

Dec 16, 2020 •

Siddharth Sarda

November 2020

Reliability Theatre

How over enthusiasm can backfire around SLOs and SLIs

Nov 29, 2020 •

Siddharth Sarda

Janna Bastow and Lean Roadmapping

Product Roadmaps and Agility can go hand in hand

Nov 22, 2020 •

Siddharth Sarda

In defence of legacy systems

Legacy systems is probably the dirtiest and most reviled work in tech.

Nov 21, 2020 •

Siddharth Sarda

At the intersection of software architecture, technical strategy and working in Tech

Nov 21, 2020 •

Siddharth Sarda

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