About

Edward Muller is a software manager & engineer living in the suburbs of Portland, OR and goes by the name freeformz online. When he isn’t working he can be found cooking, baking, playing with his kids, woodworking, walking his dog, BBQing, motorcycling, or helping out some bunnies.

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My github profile.
Minor contributions to the Go programming language.
Minor contributions to the dep package management tool
SHH: Systems Heuristics Herald - Systems Metrics Collector/Reporter (Originally https://github.com/freeformz/shh)
Logglier: Send log messages from ruby to Loggly
Godep: Vendoring tool for Go. Inherited from kr
log-shuttle: Shuttle logs off your system.

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Go Bridge member.
Gopher Slack lurker.
PDX Go occasional helper.
Rabbit Advocates Foster.

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2021/02/08 - Fastly Compute@Edge Log Tailing Blog Post
2019/12/03 - Heroku Codish Podcast #46: Go @ Heroku
2016/08/01 - Go Time FM Podcast #10: State of Go Survey / Go @ Heroku Postcast

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Edward is a site reliability engineer at Salesforce’s Heroku, where he works on things like SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, & observability systems. Ed has worked on or with everything from Novel Netware LANs to the latest cloud technologies. When he isn’t at work Ed loves coding in Go, BBQing, cooking, riding motorcycles, hanging out with friends/family, helping out in various communities, and walking his dog.

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Velocity Conf, San Jose selection committee member and Production Engineering, SRE, & DevOps track host.
GopherCon 2019 Go Observability Workshop.

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Velocity Conf, San Jose selection committee member.