Kieran Patel

I'm a software engineer, engineering manager, systems administrator,  podcast host, and Wearer of Many Other Hats living and working in Berlin, Germany.

Reading A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine 29% read

Playing Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader 25.5h this fortnight

Building { } TENNO.DAT pushed about 6 hours ago

Recent Articles

• Adventures in cross-compilation

  Using Github Actions to cross-compile and containerise a Go app, so it runs in K3s on a Raspberry Pi.

  27 August, 2021
• Optimising MySQL with Prometheus and PMM

  Why you should drop everything and add observability to your database layer immediately.

  29 October, 2020
• Remote, half a year in.

  I've worked fully remote for half a year now, and learned a lot along the way.

  12 January, 2020
• Three language features I wish PHP had

  Good languages copy, great languages steal. What could PHP nick from Python, C#, TypeScript...?

  7 April, 2019
• A Simple React Native & Firebase App

  A fun little mobile app I built in the sun, for multiplayer scorekeeping

  19 July, 2018
• Foray into Arch Linux and AwesomeWM

  On reconnecting with my inner nerd, learning stuff, and shaving numerous yaks.

  7 April, 2018