Joakim Recht

Distinguished Engineer at Uber, test freak, cake aficionado

[Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman]

Joakim Recht (Uber Distinguished Eng) on tech leads: "Software engineers need to write code. If you're not writing code, you're not a software engineer."

Joakim grew from a Senior Engineer to a Distinguished Engineer at Uber and I asked him what it took to get there. We covered:

• The project that grew his career
• What makes a great software engineer
• Learnings from promo committees
• When promos are unfair
• Biggest technical mistake at Uber in hindsight
• Advice for his younger self

𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀:
• YouTube: https://t.co/FE0ME5neta
• Transcript: https://t.co/fdAI6KKmnt
• Spotify: https://t.co/oxWTLwmpBj
• Apple: https://t.co/CN9FSyPSII

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

A small piece about the struggles of a senior software engineer

https://t.co/Y8RYGXQHCJ

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

Check out my latest article: Life as a Senior Engineer https://t.co/3KqZXDvhd9 via @LinkedIn

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

8 years later: https://t.co/EsU3dTHgrI

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

Just posted a photo @ Aarhus, Denmark https://t.co/dbFHSNhjDT

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

Farvel køkken - den ene del et lettere brugt #hthkøkken, den anden del pænt gammel, måske endda det oprindelige køkken fra 1890? I hvert fald bygget direkte ovenpå gulvbjælkerne, og meget massivt 🙂🔪🛠️👷‍♂️#køkken… https://t.co/fCbA8hbLrn

[Conor L. Myhrvold 🐘 @conormyhrvold]

New article out! #Uber built Grail, our infrastructure management platform, to aggregate the current state of our systems into a single global view, spanning all zones and regions: https://t.co/4qvIMpt7Bu via @ubereng

[DevOpsCon @devops_con]

Speaker @joakimrecht talks about why running #databases in #Docker is a good idea and what kind of tooling #Uber is building to support running many thousands of #MySQL databases, #Cassandra nodes, #ElasticSearch nodes, and more. >> https://t.co/zBauXvyYh0

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

Til alle jyske coin-fans: https://t.co/DoSIQHC7qk #coin #blockchain

[DevOpsCon @devops_con]

Speaker @joakimrecht talks about why running #databases in #Docker is a good idea and what kind of tooling #Uber is building to support running many thousands of #MySQL databases, Cassandra #nodes, and more. https://t.co/3gaT31o9Bw

[Conor L. Myhrvold 🐘 @conormyhrvold]

New article out today on #Uber's Aarhus engineering office, focused on infrastructure development: https://t.co/c0Dgp9GDTC via @ubereng (& almost 4 yrs old too!)

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

Husk: Man må ikke pynte med edderkopper!

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

Note to self: #golang locks are not reentrant. Calling RLock multiple times works, but will eventually deadlock and waste a lot of your time

[Uber @Uber]

5 billion rides, 6 continents, 76 countries—thank you to the riders and drivers who powered this journey.

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

Bought a new @LGDeveloper TV. Assumed that I could write my own apps and install them. I was wrong about the second part. Returning.

[DEV Community @ThePracticalDev]

2 unit tests. 0 integration tests.

[Joakim Recht @joakimrecht]

https://t.co/LxAGcTZPFF - fordi børnehaver med kun ikke-vaccinerede børn er en god ide... Fordelen er selvfølgelig at man ved hvor de er...

[DEV Community @ThePracticalDev]

Microservice architecture visualized

[Conor L. Myhrvold 🐘 @conormyhrvold]

“Breaking Down the Father on BBC Being Interrupted by His Children” by @benthompson https://t.co/Ho5pVkScIe