Urban Dynamics

We build & scale tech for businesses, from Fortune-100's to startups. Your solutions partner when you want it built right. Follow for learnings from our work!

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You work hard. Your tech partner should too.

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

I have only one ask: Please fix your slow website. I'm begging you.

https://t.co/Eci46wjOX2

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Build it right. Get more sleep.

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It all takes time. Don't give up.

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Keep innovating.

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There are two types of people…

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

What kind of URL Query Param person are you? 🧐

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

Who would you trust more?

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Remember, take time to teach & share with others. It's one of my favorite ways to give back to those around me! And makes everyone better in the end 😊

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

Remember, take time to teach & share with others. It's one of my favorite ways to give back to those around me! And makes everyone better in the end 😊

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

Ghosts are scary but leaked cloud credentials are scarier 🎃 the @sysdig discovery of 15k cloud creds. stolen is the perfect time to talk about how to (and not to) do cloud & other credentials: 🧵

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

Can you imagine designing an API that would last 60+ years? Today's case study is exactly that.

Let's talk about how we can make better tech decisions through a simple lesson from modern phone numbers: 🧵

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

How to know you're getting better (my framework & story from an intern to a CEO): 🧵

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

Cloudflare announced SSH with Access for Infrastructure! Which seems like the perfect time to talk about how to make SSH at scale not be awful: 🧵

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

What does it even mean to use the cloud? And what does that have to with Existentialism? The answer makes way more sense than it should! Let me explain: 🧵

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

The end-of-life for @twilio Video is a story about business decisions for tech dependencies. I wanted to share helping a client through this scenario & what we can learn: 🧵

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

There's been an anti-cloud push lately by @dhh at @37signals. Let's talk about how I navigate cloud vs. self-hosting (and if 37signals made the right call): 🧵

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

I've been enjoying @ztellman's newsletter Explaining Software Design. I realized many ideas from it apply to cloud & DevOps as well and wanted to share: 🧵

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

Surprise update of the iPad Mini from @Apple caught me off guard, but it's really the perfect example of how I recommend clients approach CD (continuous deployment). Let's break it down: 🧵 #devops

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

I think @GergelyOrosz is dead on here for AI not replacing the software dev industry. Also, everyone forgets that there are tons of operations jobs (DevOps, SRE, DBA, etc.) that require much more than generating text via LLM!

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

Reminder: Life's better when you split your CI & CD.

Doesn't matter if you're using GitHub, GitLab, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.

[Ferris 🚀 @im_ferris]

*sips coffee* Nothing like a predictable OS flame war to start the day.

On a serious note, this does highlight the importance of cross OS developer support. Having your CI run on Linux, Windows, and MacOS stops any "works on my machine's OS" arguments.