Postgres, performance, and 25 years of writing from Matty Stratton.https://www.mattstratton.com/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/decouple-release-from-deploy/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/decouple-release-from-deploy/'Merged' and 'live' are not the same event, and an agent that can merge to main doesn't change that. It just makes it obvious you never separated them.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/mattstratton-com-stack/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/mattstratton-com-stack/A tour of the stack behind mattstratton.com and speaking.mattstratton.com: a monorepo holding two Astro sites and a dev.to sync tool, twenty years of blog posts, and the pipeline that crossposts posts like this one.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/zshrc-tour/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/zshrc-tour/A guided tour through the parts of my shell config that are actually worth explaining, from a shell that now has two audiences to a Keychain-backed secrets setup.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/how-my-coworker-who-didnt-know-cd-shipped-to-production/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/how-my-coworker-who-didnt-know-cd-shipped-to-production/The agent isn't the hard part. The scaffolding around it is. Here's how we built ours so a non-engineer could ship to production safely.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/coding-agents-are-actually-good-at-this-one-thing/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/coding-agents-are-actually-good-at-this-one-thing/Coding agents aren't magic. But for internal tooling? They've brought back the "just build the thing" era I've been missing since Microsoft Access.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/product-101-your-secret-weapon-for-understanding-the-business/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/product-101-your-secret-weapon-for-understanding-the-business/Strategic product leaders sit at the intersection of everything. Learn why Product is DevRel's most valuable partnership—and your secret source of business intel.Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/finance-101-budgets-pls-and-the-language-of-money/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/finance-101-budgets-pls-and-the-language-of-money/Want to defend your DevRel budget? Learn to speak finance. Understand P&Ls, CapEx vs OpEx, and why your CFO cares about things you've never thought about.Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/marketing-101-funnels-campaigns-and-what-marketing-actually-means/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/marketing-101-funnels-campaigns-and-what-marketing-actually-means/DevRel isn't marketing, but you need to speak their language. Learn about funnels, MQLs, and campaigns...and why understanding marketing makes you better at DevRel.Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/product-led-growth-and-what-it-means-for-devrel/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/product-led-growth-and-what-it-means-for-devrel/Product-Led Growth changes everything for DevRel. Learn how PLG works, why it matters for developer tools, and how DevRel becomes essential infrastructure.Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/putting-it-all-together-speaking-business-as-a-devrel-professional/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/putting-it-all-together-speaking-business-as-a-devrel-professional/You've learned sales, marketing, finance, and PLG. Now learn how to translate DevRel work into business language that resonates with every stakeholder in your company.Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/sales-101-what-your-sales-team-does-and-how-devrel-fits-in/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/sales-101-what-your-sales-team-does-and-how-devrel-fits-in/Stop treating sales like the enemy. Learn what your sales team actually does, decode pipeline and ARR, and discover how DevRel impacts deals without selling out.Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/why-business-literacy-matters-for-devrel-and-why-you-cant-skip-this-step/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/why-business-literacy-matters-for-devrel-and-why-you-cant-skip-this-step/DevRel teams struggle to prove value because they lack business literacy. Learn why understanding sales, marketing, and finance is foundational to DevRel success.Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/hosting-a-participant-first-conference-in-the-age-of-corona-how-to-do-it/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/hosting-a-participant-first-conference-in-the-age-of-corona-how-to-do-it/Sept 1, 2020 was the 7th annual DevOpsDays Chicago conference. It was also the first time we did it virtually. It was super well-received, and a lot of folks have been asking me for details on our implementation.Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/post/take-care-of-yourself/https://www.mattstratton.com/post/take-care-of-yourself/Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:30:40 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/my-brewfile-1pob/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/my-brewfile-1pob/Did you know that Homebrew can install more than just packages? Here's an updated guided tour through my Brewfile to see how I set up applications, VS Code extensions, and more on my MacBook.Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/the-monorepo-song/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/the-monorepo-song/Because a dev with root access is like a mule with a spinning wheelThu, 30 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/hot-takes-myths-and-fake-news---why-everyone-is-wrong-about-devops-except-for-me/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/hot-takes-myths-and-fake-news---why-everyone-is-wrong-about-devops-except-for-me/Don't believe everything you read on the internet when it comes to DevOps. A lot of people think they know what they are talking about, but they really don't. I, on the other hand, know exactly what I'm talking about.Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/dont-fear-the-cfp/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/dont-fear-the-cfp/Deciding to submit a talk for consideration at an event can be a troubling thing — what if my idea isn’t good enough? Do I think big enough thoughts to share a stage with Thought Leaders? Why would anyone care what I have to?Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/writing/the-five-love-languages-of-devops/https://www.mattstratton.com/writing/the-five-love-languages-of-devops/When we are working to bring about cultural change in our organization, it’s essential for us to understand that not everyone speaks the same “language of DevOps as we do.Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/post/getting-started-with-chef/https://www.mattstratton.com/post/getting-started-with-chef/Chef is super cool. The point of this post is to walk you through the basics of getting started solving a problem with Chef.Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:35:31 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/help-mary-help-families-in-need/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/help-mary-help-families-in-need/My roommate, Mary, has "adopted" two families in need this Christmas. Last year she adopted three families, and your donations and generosity made it happen. She could use YOUR help in making the holidays amazing for these families.Sat, 10 Oct 2015 05:01:49 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech/starting-a-tech-podcast/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech/starting-a-tech-podcast/Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:04:56 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/tech/devops/https://www.mattstratton.com/tech/devops/Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:55:51 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/help-families-christmas/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/help-families-christmas/My roommate, Mary, has "adopted" not one, not two, but THREE families in need this Christmas. Last year she adopted a family of six, and had such an amazing experience she decided to up it by a factor of three. She could use YOUR help in making the holidays amazing for these families.Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:23:26 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/devops/hipster-devops-happens-to-the-best-of-us/https://www.mattstratton.com/devops/hipster-devops-happens-to-the-best-of-us/Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:32:18 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/happy-birthday-sophia-margaret/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/happy-birthday-sophia-margaret/Happy first birthday to the best little Fifi-bunny ever.Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:30:48 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/matts-top-10-reasons-internet-friends-are-better-than-real-friends/https://www.mattstratton.com/life-in-general/matts-top-10-reasons-internet-friends-are-better-than-real-friends/Everyone knows that having friend on the internet is awesome. Here are 10 reasons why.Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:48:40 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/the-internets/traces-of-identity-guest-post/https://www.mattstratton.com/the-internets/traces-of-identity-guest-post/My name is Ashley and I blog at Writing To Reach You. When I asked for opportunities to guest blog, Matt offered me some space here and asked, “how about the personal and emotional implications of leaving portions of yourself and your content in a disparate and incongruent network that is both ephemeral and everlasting?”Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:39:10 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/real-world/how-to-get-a-lot-of-blog-post-titles-in-24-hours/https://www.mattstratton.com/real-world/how-to-get-a-lot-of-blog-post-titles-in-24-hours/As you may recall, I am embarking on an experiment to crowd-sourced blog titles. I asked Twitter to suggest titles for blog posts using the hashtag #mattblog, and committed to writing a post for every title.Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:51:20 GMThttps://www.mattstratton.com/meta/the-great-blog-title-challenge-thing/https://www.mattstratton.com/meta/the-great-blog-title-challenge-thing/Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:47:11 GMT