Principal Software Engineer

Kyle Boon

Distributed systems, cloud architecture, and things I've shipped.

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Recent Writing

March 16, 2025 Keeping my skills sharp
How I'm keeping my skills sharp between jobs, comparing Execute Program, Boot.dev, Coding Challenges, and codecrafters.io.
December 29, 2023 Changes
Migrating to GitHub Pages, writing custom CSS with no frameworks or JavaScript, and cleaning house on old blog posts.
January 29, 2020 Leaving Octopress
Migrating from Octopress to plain Jekyll with the Beautiful Jekyll theme, preserving old URLs, and simplifying the stack.
June 30, 2016 Validating An HTTP POST With Ratpack
Implementing JSR-303 bean validation for HTTP POST handlers in Ratpack, inspired by Dropwizard's automatic validation pattern.
April 10, 2016 Zero to Ratpack - Part 3
Refactoring the reverse proxy into Ratpack modules and adding new features through composable handlers in the chain.