Featured
Coop Security / 6 min
How to Build a Secure Coop Firewall
Protect your digital assets with our state-of-the-art chicken fence security.
Beatrice Featherstone / 2025-02-11
Future of Clucking / 4 min
The Future of Clucking: 2025 Predictions
Our egg-perts predict the next big trends in chicken software development.
Bartholomew Brooder / 2025-01-28
Pecking Practices / 5 min
5 Tips for Better Pecking in 2025
Learn how to improve your development workflow with our expert clucking tips.
Penelope Pullet / 2025-01-14
Pecking Practices
Pecking Practices / 6 min
Writing Good Runbooks at 3 a.m.
How to write operational docs that help a sleepy person at the worst time.
Gertrude Gizzard / 2026-08-18
Pecking Practices / 8 min
Designing for Hatchlings: Accessible Software for Everyone
A practical look at accessibility, from keyboard navigation to color contrast.
Dolores Peckham / 2025-09-16
Pecking Practices / 10 min
A Gentle Introduction to Cluck, Our Programming Language
A guided walk through the Cluck language, from "bawk hello" to your first async egg.
Reginald Crowe / 2025-07-15
Pecking Practices / 7 min
The Complete Guide to Egg-sellent Error Messages
How to write error messages that help, instead of making people want to unplug something.
Cornelius Cornfield / 2025-03-25
Pecking Practices / 5 min
5 Tips for Better Pecking in 2025
Learn how to improve your development workflow with our expert clucking tips.
Penelope Pullet / 2025-01-14
Future of Clucking
Future of Clucking / 6 min
Chicken-Scale Thinking: A Product Philosophy
Why we design for the smallest unit that can do useful work, and then let it multiply.
Penelope Pullet / 2026-10-06
Future of Clucking / 8 min
Machine Learning Without the Math Headache
A friendly overview of how models learn, with fewer Greek letters than usual.
Beatrice Featherstone / 2026-07-07
Future of Clucking / 7 min
Peck Pilot Review: Does the Hen Know Best?
We let our AI pair programmer loose on a real codebase for a month. Here is what happened.
Henrietta Hatchworth / 2025-09-02
Future of Clucking / 4 min
The Future of Clucking: 2025 Predictions
Our egg-perts predict the next big trends in chicken software development.
Bartholomew Brooder / 2025-01-28
Coop Security
Coop Security / 5 min
Security Questionnaires, Ranked by How Long They Take
A tongue-in-cheek ranking of the forms that every security team has filled out at 2 a.m.
Priscilla Plume / 2026-05-05
Coop Security / 9 min
What We Learned from a 3 a.m. Rooster Outage
An honest post-incident review of the night the rooster crowed and could not stop.
Beatrice Featherstone / 2026-01-20
Coop Security / 7 min
The Pecking Order Problem in Access Control
Why role-based access gets messy, and how flocks help.
Bartholomew Brooder / 2025-10-14
Coop Security / 5 min
Quacking Down on Phishing
How to recognize the oldest scam in the book, now with better costumes.
Gertrude Gizzard / 2025-07-01
Coop Security / 6 min
Rolling Back Without Losing a Feather
Practical rules for safe rollbacks, and why you should practice them on a calm Tuesday.
Reginald Crowe / 2025-05-20
Coop Security / 6 min
How to Build a Secure Coop Firewall
Protect your digital assets with our state-of-the-art chicken fence security.
Beatrice Featherstone / 2025-02-11
Cloud Coops
Cloud Coops / 7 min
Six Things We Wish We Knew Before Moving to the Coop
Hard-won lessons from customers who migrated to Pollosoft Cloud, collected and lightly roasted.
Priscilla Plume / 2026-07-21
Cloud Coops / 7 min
Eggs-ploring Edge Computing with Perch
How running code close to users changes the way you build.
Priscilla Plume / 2026-04-21
Cloud Coops / 3 min
What Is a Coop? A Plain-Language Definition
A short, friendly explainer for people who have never heard the word used about software.
Dolores Peckham / 2026-04-07
Cloud Coops / 8 min
Anatomy of a Zero-Downtime Deploy
A look inside RollingRoost, step by step, from the first healthy hen to the last.
Reginald Crowe / 2025-09-30
Cloud Coops / 9 min
The Great Egg Migration: Moving 4 Petabytes to FeedBucket
A war story about moving the largest barn in the company to object storage, and what we learned about patience.
Maurice Wingate / 2025-06-03
Cloud Coops / 6 min
Serverless Is Just Free Range for Code
A friendly explainer on functions, cold starts, and why your code does not need a coop all day.
Bartholomew Brooder / 2025-04-22
Data and Eggs
Data and Eggs / 6 min
The Cost of Cache Misses: A Cautionary Tale
How one missed cache key cost a customer 40,000 eggs, and how they fixed it.
Bartholomew Brooder / 2026-09-01
Data and Eggs / 7 min
Data Quality Is Candle Light
A short history of candling, and how it maps to modern data testing.
Dolores Peckham / 2026-03-03
Data and Eggs / 8 min
Observability for People Who Hate Dashboards
You can get real insight without staring at graphs. Try these instead.
Reginald Crowe / 2025-12-09
Data and Eggs / 5 min
Why Your Dashboard Should Be Boring
Every chart you add is a chart you must maintain, and likely a chart no one reads.
Maurice Wingate / 2025-06-17
Data and Eggs / 8 min
Counting Your Chickens: A Better Approach to Forecasting
Why we stopped counting chickens before they hatched, and what we measure instead.
Beatrice Featherstone / 2025-04-08
Culture
Culture / 5 min
A Day in the Life of a Pollosoft Engineer
From the first coffee to the last commit, with several breaks for scratching.
Bartholomew Brooder / 2026-09-15
Culture / 6 min
The Anatomy of a Pun
A rigorous, scientific analysis of the one thing we do best.
Cornelius Cornfield / 2026-06-16
Culture / 7 min
How We Run a Blameless Fox Review
A step-by-step guide to learning from incidents without pointing beaks.
Gertrude Gizzard / 2026-05-19
Culture / 4 min
The Road Not Chicken: Why Careers at Pollosoft Rule
An honest look at what it is like to work here. Warning: contains puns.
Gertrude Gizzard / 2026-03-17
Culture / 3 min
Free-Range Meetings: A Manifesto
Fewer meetings, shorter meetings, and more walking.
Henrietta Hatchworth / 2026-02-17
Culture / 4 min
Seven Chicken Idioms That Make Sense in Engineering
Idioms we use too often, and what they teach us.
Dolores Peckham / 2026-01-06
Culture / 7 min
Egg-cellent Onboarding: Your First 90 Days
What new hires can expect, from day one to the first big deploy.
Clara Cluckington / 2025-11-25
Culture / 6 min
How We Test Hardware (Spoiler: We Drop It)
A tour of the lab where every device is dropped, spilled on, and pecked 10 million times.
Dolores Peckham / 2025-11-11
Culture / 5 min
What a Chicken Taught Me About On-Call
Lessons from a very good hen named Beatrice on staying calm when the pager rings.
Maurice Wingate / 2025-08-19
Culture / 5 min
Meet the Flock: How We Hire
Our interview process, explained, with minimal pecking.
Dolores Peckham / 2025-05-06
Company News
Company News / 4 min
Annual Egg Report 2026: By the Numbers
A year of Pollosoft, in numbers that are mostly real.
Reginald Crowe / 2026-10-27
Company News / 5 min
Rooster Season: Our Annual Offsite in Review
Three days, one barn, and a surprising number of trust falls.
Penelope Pullet / 2026-08-04
Company News / 3 min
Introducing Dawn Patrol 2.0
Faster checks, more locations, and a rooster you can finally mute. (Not really.)
Priscilla Plume / 2026-06-02
Company News / 4 min
Introducing PeckPay: Payroll You Can Count On
Our newest business app handles payroll in 40 countries, with fewer surprises.
Priscilla Plume / 2026-02-03
Company News / 4 min
Hello, Haarlem: Why Our HQ Is Where It Is
The story of our headquarters, a former bakery, and the lingering smell of fresh bread.
Clara Cluckington / 2025-10-28
Company News / 6 min
Our Carbon Footprint Is Smaller Than Yours (Probably)
A frank look at the environmental impact of running a fictional chicken cloud.
Reginald Crowe / 2025-08-05
Company News / 4 min
Introducing CluckCode 4: The Peckening
Our biggest IDE release adds multi-peck selection, a faster indexer, and a dark mode called Midnight Roost.
Reginald Crowe / 2025-03-11
Company News / 3 min
Why We Peg the Egg to the Dozen
The surprisingly deep story behind our internal currency.
Priscilla Plume / 2025-02-25