Mike Auclair

Mike Auclair's blog posts

Ops Camp 1.0

Ad Hoc recently held a two-day OpsCamp in Chicago, IL, focused on helping team members learn through sessions, activities, and simulations.

Saying goodbye to middleware, or retiring homework for fun and freshness

Today is a bittersweet day for Ad Hoc Engineering, as we fully retire middleware, one of our Engineering homework assignments. Middleware was replaced in our homework pools for engineering positions by noclist.

Why we use homework to recruit engineers

One challenge is finding a way to evaluate technical ability without an in-person technical interview. We do this by issuing homework assignments to candidates to be completed on their own time.

R&D: BEAM clustering with AWS Auto Scaling

Something we pride ourselves on at Ad Hoc is our preference to own the operations and maintenance for the things we build.

CPU profiling with Qcachegrind

Presentation by Ad Hoc Software Engineer Mike Auclair on CPU profiling with qcachegrind.