Derrick Wippler

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Derrick Wippler

Derrick Wippler is the Principal Engineer at Sinch Mailgun. He researches, develops and oversees our engineering initiatives. He writes about engineering topics, system architecture, services, and efficiencies. We suspect he's part computer himself.

Latest stories by Derrick Wippler

Software bugs and how to fix them faster

The cost of debugging isn’t the same for everyone. Cost doesn’t just depend on operation and service fees, but on how much technical debt you have. When we talk about...

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Architecture efficiency with containers

Why is a container such an inexpensive element to run within your system architecture? What makes a container so much more efficient than a virtual machine? Why should we...

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GroupCache: The superior Golang cache

Golang cache makes distributed caching and synchronization simple and easy to deploy with GroupCache. But why is this the superior tool? And what problems does it solve?...

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Devgun: Creating development environments with Kubernetes

When we first approached the problem of creating local development environments, we reached for common tools like vagrant. But as...

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How we realized a 30x performance improvement in MongoDB read preference

You know what they say…the more redundant you are, the more redundant you are. Replica sets are database processes that provide high availability and reduce server failover...

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