Last week, I attended my first in-person KubeCon at KubeCon North America 2023. I learned a lot and it gave me a lot to think about in connection with my team’s work.
Today at my internship I merged a PR that broke the master branch. Surprisingly, it wasn’t a big deal. As soon as the issue was reported to my team, I knew which commit was to blame. I pushed up a branch that reverted that commit and waited for it to pass CI. On the recommendation of my mentor, I sent a Slack message to the whole engineering group letting them know that someone had broken master and a fix was incoming.
My internship wasn’t originally supposed to be remote. But I’m enjoying many aspects of working from home. For one, my work environment is mostly under my control. In an open office floor plan (which seems to be popular), I would be subject to ambient noise and visual distractions. Besides that, I have a variety of locations available to work from — my desk, the couch, or even out in the backyard in the sun (highly recommended!