Writing · Jacob Bednarz

2026

Validating your OpenAPI specification with reality

2025

Restricted stock units: the hidden trap

Skip the hype, sell the shovel

What Emperor Penguins taught me about building high performing teams

2024

Automatically generating Cloudflare’s Terraform provider (blog.cloudflare.com)

Lessons from building an automated SDK pipeline (blog.cloudflare.com)

Gradual deployments, Rate Limiting, and new SDKs (blog.cloudflare.com)

2023

Lucky blueberries

Stop trying to convince people

Terraform Providers and the Terraform Plugin Framework with Jacob Bednarz (youtube.com)

2022

Piggybacking on container networking for debugging

No redis-cli? No problem

Migrating to auto-generated Terraform Registry documentation

2021

Home network

Terraform provider development overrides

2020

Personal data backup plan

Surviving on-call

2019

Organisation of information for my workflow

Taming travel

2018

Interview with Jacob (remotehabits.com)

Migrating edge network providers (webuild.envato.com)

2017

Remedying the API gateway (webuild.envato.com)

2016

Getting Envato Market HTTPS everywhere (webuild.envato.com)

Tracking down Ruby heap corruption in amongst 35 million daily requests (webuild.envato.com)

Remote transition

2015

Tracking SQL queries

Why post mortems matter

Flip - Bringing feature toggling to Drupal

2014

Lightweight RESTful API's in Drupal

Using the 'Accept' header for HTTP API versioning

Using monit for server monitoring

Bootstrapping your projects

2013

Switching to chruby

Sinatra inside of Rails

Why you should be virtualising your development environments

Writing good commit messages