Tim
COO
from Belgium 🇧🇪
Wouter looks like the nice kid you knew at high school. But boy oh boy, when it comes to problem-solving, this developer is like a pitbull on steroids.
It must have been that world trip he made, which cleared his mind to the extent he can now fully sink his shiny teeth into fixing unsolvable bugs and automatic testing. If he applied himself as much to playing his ukelele, his girlfriend wouldn't have to listen to that one song all the time. And no, we're not talking ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’.
If you were a dictator, what would be the first thing you made illegal?
Pizza with pineapple (Pizza Hawaii).
Is there one thing you find especially motivating in your work, more than anything else?
Learning new stuff is the main thing that keeps me going and having fun. I'm also motivated by getting stuff shipped, positive feedback, constructive discussion, variety in the things we have to do, seeing quality improve, good teamwork, and so on.
Articles by Wouter
When Sentry eats your transactions
Sentry silently drops transactions that blow past its span and payload limits, so the heaviest background jobs are exactly the ones missing from your dashboard. Capping span count and truncating span descriptions on bytes brings them back.
Residuality Theory: a different way to think about architecture
Most architecture methods try to predict which failures will hit. Residuality Theory does the opposite: it throws random stressors at a design and keeps whatever survives. The randomness is the point, because resilience that depends on predicting the future is not resilience at all.
Some of Wouter's colleagues
Alexandros
Software engineer
from South Africa 🇿🇦
Emma
Software engineer
from United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Roduan
Software engineer
from Syria 🇸🇾
Michał
Software engineer
from Poland 🇵🇱
Stef
Software engineer
from Belgium 🇧🇪
Christophe
CTO in residence
from Belgium 🇧🇪
Charlotte
Software engineer
from South Africa 🇿🇦
Peter
CTO in residence
from Belgium 🇧🇪
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