PinnedLawrence JonesWant to found a start-up? Work at one first!Contrary to the popular stereotype of college drop-out founders, research shows start-ups with older founders are more likely to succeed…11 min read·Aug 30, 2022----
Lawrence JonesAdding latency: one step, two step, oopsI’m a fan of testing in production, especially when it comes to complex systems with a wide range of user behaviour. You can only go so far…8 min read·Aug 20, 2022----
Lawrence JonesGrowing into Platform EngineeringThis post is a written form of my talk at PlatformCon, with the addition of the service catalog story.9 min read·Jun 11, 2022----
Lawrence JonesMy most impactful codeAt a team dinner over Mexican food and margaritas, someone asked “what was the most impactful code you ever wrote?”.5 min read·Mar 19, 2022----
Lawrence JonesHacking sum types with Go genericsI’ve been writing Go professionally for five years now, and the feature I’ve wanted the most — more than generics, even — is a sum type.6 min read·Mar 13, 2022----
Lawrence JonesFixing flaky dbt tests with a sync cutoffI work at incident.io, a start-up in London that just built our first data stack using Fivetran for ETL and dbt for transformations.5 min read·Feb 9, 2022----
Lawrence JonesinDev GeniusAPI development with type-safety across the entire stackOne year ago I was working at GoCardless, building a prototype of an Open Banking product.7 min read·Jan 22, 2022----
Lawrence JonesWhat developers find surprising about Postgres transactionsWhen should I use a transaction in Postgres? And why would I lock?4 min read·Nov 29, 2021----
Lawrence JonesOn working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from othersOne of those “unpopular opinion” tweets went wild recently, kicking up a storm of people responding on both sides of the fence.7 min read·Jul 4, 2021----
Lawrence JonesEmbed a Javascript website inside a binary with Go 1.16Amongst all the news- both positive and grumbling- around the Golang generics proposal, you may have missed the announcement of native file…5 min read·Feb 16, 2021----