Sneha Inguva

Sneha is a Software Engineer at Fastly on the network control and optimization team and a former Network Engineer at DigitalOcean.

My journey to writing networking code began on the internal Kubernetes and observability teams at DigitalOcean, a cloud hosting provider. Before I ever touched a line of network code or configuration logic, I learned that behind a planet-scale company is a multitude of distributed systems consisting of hundreds, if not thousands, of services, serviced by many teams of engineers. The process of building and deploying maintainable services required a proper CI/CD setup, monitoring, and actionable alerting. This was echoed in my experiences when I transitioned over to writing lower-level networking code in Go on various networking teams. When you are writing code that is meant to be deployed to thousands of hypervisors or servers in various locations around the world—and when that code controls fundamentals’ ingress and egress...