Last week I wrote a simple Github Action(google/secrets-sync-action) to copy secrets to many different repositories. The motivation was simple, as a maintainer of a Github organization with many repositories, I wanted a way to copy a token for the googlemaps-bot to all of the necessary repositories. JavaScript(TypeScript) Action It was a surprisingly…

As a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, much of my work is focused on client libraries wrapping API endpoints for third party consumers. While we have great tooling to autogenerate client libraries from gRPC definitions at a layer above the default generated code, not all of our APIs support it…

On multiple occasions over the last couple months I have experienced the phenomenon where the rules of SemVer are bent to avoid a major version. One such case is what I am calling the marketing problem. There isn’t anything BIG enough to warrant a major release. And with that, I…

Recently I have jumped back into JavaScript and web development. This was after nearly three years focused on backend applications and infrastructure using tools such as Go, Python, Redis, Kubernetes, and Bazel. With this stack, our build system worked great and my team was confident in its releases. …

tl;dr: Bazel is an invaluable tool with some momentum. It is needed by more than just the largest tech companies in the world and you should use it. Attendees The most noticeable and consistent part of the conference was that all of the attendees seem to be dealing with the same…