Mike Groseclose

Development teams face constant pressure to ship code faster while maintaining security and quality. Today we launched GitLab Duo with Amazon Q in GA to address these challenges head-on. By embedding Amazon Q's AI agents into GitLab's platform, we're accelerating developer workflows throughout the software development lifecycle directly from GitLab. Already seeing great feedback from customers like Volkswagen Digital Solutions and Availity. This is another step forward in our mission to make innovation a lot easier with GenAI. https://lnkd.in/emAth4vT

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Some exciting updates are coming to POS UI extensions 🚀 This summer, we introduced new capabilities: Direct API access, Storage API and new targets on the cart line item details screen. I'm excited to preview even more exciting things coming in 2025-10 and beyond. 🎨 Polaris We're lowering the barrier to making great POS UI extensions by bringing Shopify's single UI framework, Polaris, to POS. Write highly-performant, HTML-like code that works with any framework for any app and any extension surface, including Shopify POS. Preview components and examples in the release candidate documentation: https://lnkd.in/gwciA7CT We understand this is a big change if you've previously been writing your UI code with React. Get ready with our upgrade guide: https://lnkd.in/gjQAY-pf 🗺️ Navigation Extensions can present native detail screens. Present product details, product variant details, customer details, order details, and staff details without retail staff leaving your extension and workflow. Documentation: https://lnkd.in/gvmd6etq 🛒 Cart API We're adding support for subscriptions and making tweaks to how we provide your extension with updates from the cart. Documentation: https://lnkd.in/g3FCe-kX 📚 Documentation improvements We have added a new targets overview page that provides a great overview of available targets with improved descriptions and visuals: https://lnkd.in/g6nDZmu8 🛠️ Developer Experience We're making improvements to the developer experience with better in-app extension development tools, better debugging tools, and hot reloading. Keep an eye on upcoming versions of Shopify POS as we'll be rolling out these improvements into January. 🔮 Next-gen developer platform Shopify has launched a new Dev Dashboard, and we've transitioned apps and dev stores from the Partner Dashboard. Make sure to update to the latest version of Shopify's CLI and check out the latest news: https://lnkd.in/gkGvn7Tz

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Some of my predictions for software trends in 2025. This is the year we all become acquainted with the *downsides* of owning AI-generated code and running LLMs in production. What was fast to create in development is suddenly slow, expensive, and unpredictable in production... 💥 https://lnkd.in/gjEni_if

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In a new blog post, Marc Bowes looks at how updates work in Aurora DSQL, and what it means for scalable schema design. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gmGEK8Dv A couple take-aways for application builders: - You mostly don't have to worry about hot read keys in DSQL, even in read-write transactions. DSQL can scale out per-key read throughput, and the design requires no co-ordination between transactions reading the same key. (Thank you, MVCC and Time Sync!) - Scalable applications do need to avoid high-contention write keys when doing updates. Writes need to be coordinated and ordered (to implement the I in ACID), which limits per-key throughput. - Most applications can avoid hot write keys with the right schema design. Most applications have already been written this way, because high-contention keys perform poorly on relational databases of all kinds.

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We kicked off Elastic{ON} San Francisco with a packed room and a big announcement today: Elastic Agent Builder is now available in technical preview on Elastic Cloud in serverless! Congrats to all of the Elasticians who worked on the launch. I’m excited for developers to start using Agent Builder, which provides a conversational experience out of the box. At Elastic, we’re eager to use it too! We're launching an internal hackathon for all Elasticians to see how they’ll use Agent Builder to better serve our customers, automate work and even create new products. With Agent Builder, you can: - Simplify development of AI agents and chat experiences based on data in Elastic. - Natively chat with any data in Elastic using a built-in agent that enables deep natural language exploration and analysis. - Build AI agents that achieve higher accuracy, relevance, and efficiency based on the power of hybrid search. - Use and extend Elastic-hosted MCP tools to quickly connect answers and context from Elasticsearch to your custom applications. Agent Builder is coming soon in Elasticsearch version 9.2. Have you tried Agent Builder yet? What use cases you have found? If you want to get started using Agent Builder, read our blog: https://lnkd.in/g2ZWKBDv

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I've been keeping rough track of the number of interviews I've preformed over my career at Google, Facebook and Roblox and I believe I recently passed the 1500 mark!    I’ve talked to everyone from new grads to principal engineers, EMs, directors, and beyond. After so many conversations, you start to notice what really stands out, and it’s not always what you'd expect. Here are three things that consistently make a difference, no matter the level: - Be real. The best interviews feel like a genuine conversation. Talk about what actually happened, the wins, the mistakes, the lessons. Don’t over-polish it. - Stay humble. Great engineers (and leaders) lift others up. They share credit, take ownership when things go sideways, and focus on the bigger picture. - Know yourself. Self-awareness is a superpower. Show how you’ve grown — and what you're still working on. That kind of reflection is way more powerful than a perfect resume. If you're interviewing right now, I hope this helps. And if we’ve had one of those 1,500 conversations.. Thank you! I’ve learned a ton from hearing your stories. #EngineeringLeadership #CareerGrowth #InterviewTips #SoftwareEngineering #AuthenticLeadership

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It's a big day at Honeycomb! We're announcing major advancements in Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline that unlock a new era of observability—one without tradeoffs. 🔥 Over the past several years, conversations around observability have revolved around challenging tradeoffs: retention versus fidelity, availability versus speed—and always, the constant pressure of cost. With the rise of OpenTelemetry shifting telemetry ownership from vendors to engineering teams, it was no surprise to see telemetry pipelines quickly emerge as essential infrastructure. Yet—as standalone solutions—these pipelines reinforce divisions between the producers and consumes of telemetry data (but this time, more toxically, often within the same organization). Honeycomb is committed to a different approach: deeply integrating telemetry pipelines into the observability experience itself. ✨Enhance✨ is the first step toward this vision, eliminating the traditional tradeoffs in data management. Teams now retain easy, cost effective access to all their telemetry, even (especially! 💥) the bits they didn’t expect to matter. By aligning telemetry data management directly with data usage patterns, we're able to foster positive feedback loops across engineering teams and lay the groundwork for a more integrated, insightful, and collaborative future. Welcome to an era of true lossless observability. It's gonna be exciting. 🚀 Learn more from our press release: https://lnkd.in/dqgCZDyy

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Excited to share the launch of the Platform Team Toolkit at CircleCI! This new capability helps platform engineering teams strike the perfect balance between developer velocity and organizational control.  It's all about removing friction from the developer experience without sacrificing the guardrails that keep teams secure and compliant. https://lnkd.in/gpa-RpK9 #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #CICD #DeveloperExperience

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Excited to be reflecting on my experience leading eBay's Velocity program in my talk at #CraftConf this week: "Platform Engineering: The Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity". It will be nuanced, and no-holds-barred, and cathartic. Starting in 2020, my (now ex-)team has touched every one of the 4000 engineers and 4500 services at eBay in one way or another, by driving Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices across the organization: improving the DORA metrics 3-5x, and *doubling* the engineering productivity of the teams. I could not be prouder of what that team has accomplished. Still, those improvements have stagnated, and eBay overall is still, as I like to say, "a household name with a flat business". US ecommerce has grown 8x since 2007; eBay's GMV is essentially flat to down vs inflation at 1.5x. What happened to this once-high-flying internet pioneer and stock market darling? Culture happened. After ~20 years of observation (I joined eBay the first time in 2004), and as the once CTO-in-waiting, I will share the following interrelated explanations: * Strategy and Planning: Innovator's Dilemma, learned helplessness, centralized waterfall planning, and a focus on Outputs instead of Outcomes * Technology Dead-Ends: Custom everything and industry-standard nothing; still not leveraging the public cloud in 2025 * Pathological Organizational Culture: Culture of fear, zero-sum thinking, and insular exceptionalism Peter Drucker famously quipped, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast". Apparently it eats business and technology, too.

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Our Applied AI team is transitioning from Zynga to its parent company, Take-Two Interactive. This move marks a significant step in expanding our AI capabilities beyond Zynga, tackling broader and more complex challenges across the entire Take-Two family, including Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga. As AI continues to shape the future of gaming, we’re thrilled to be part of this growing phase, bringing innovation and building impactful AI applications to a larger scale and a wider audience. Looking forward to this next chapter and the incredible opportunities ahead! #AI #Gaming #TakeTwoInteractive #Zynga #RockstarGames #2K #AppliedAI #Innovation 🚀🎮

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