Replying to @fink_jess
I am rooting for Maxine.
re:Invent announcements being queued up. #reInvent
Need to take a break from #TheUnicornProject
RT @IanColdwater: RT if you are a senior++ developer who still Googles to remember syntax stuff
I’m trying to prove a point
/cc @wickett @djschleen https://twitter.com/patrickdebois/status/1201246826629869579
Replying to @vllry
I’m at the midpoint & there is a growing coalition who recognizes that organizational culture/(mis)design/ossification is the biggest obstacle to engineering excellence and customer impact.
The “fictional” illustrations are flashback inducing.
Replying to @vllry
Also, Clojure gets a shoutout.
Rich Hickey FTW.
Replying to @AboutDev
Keeping a lookout...
Watchmen is very good.
“Most of the big initial challenges of transforming the cloud are not technical. They’re about leadership — executive leadership. You have to get the senior leadership team aligned and convinced that you’re going to make the change.”
https://siliconangle.com/2019/12/01/commentary-andy-jassy-aims-reinvent-amazon-web-services-clouds-next-generation/
Good to see event schemas starting to gain traction. Expressed as https://swagger.io/docs/specification/data-models/ types.
Now, just need to get those `go` bindings published 😉
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-amazon-eventbridge-schema-registry-and-discovery-in-preview/
Please unroll @threadreaderapp https://twitter.com/srhtcn/status/1201619034883514368
This #reInvent thread is great stuff by @MarcJBrooker. Thx @srhtcn for posting. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1201619034883514368.html
“All possible access paths are verified by mathematical proofs“ 😍
Identify Unintended Resource Access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer | AWS News Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/identify-unintended-resource-access-with-aws-identity-and-access-management-iam-access-analyzer/
Seeing more security focused tooling and services from all cloud vendors.
“I’m more than happy to stick my flag in the ground and repeat from above that serviceful systems are more than mature enough and more than valuable enough that you should have to justify why you’re not using them.” #Serverless (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pauldambra.dev/2019/11/serverless-lessons-learned.html
Please add conditional updates and batch parameter writes to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/APIReference/API_PutParameter.html #awswishlist
Replying to @benbridts
I found that section very confusing.
The conflation of healthcare outcomes and cost containment is off-putting.
Replying to @IamStan
Huzzah 🙌
Was that a Shapley metric up there? #reInvent2019
Need to dig in more on the specifics - this capability is much needed.
“Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor, you can detect quality deviations for deployed models.”
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-studio-the-first-fully-integrated-development-environment-for-machine-learning/
Wait, Ohio?
Whither Oregon? My monitoring must have died of dysentery.
#reinvent
mo’ Data, mo’ SQL
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-amazon-redshift-data-lake-export-and-federated-queries/
Over/under on when this will be hooked up with live profiling? #reinvent
https://aws.amazon.com/codeguru/
This is going to be a great AWS trivia night answer to the “Kardashian or AWS” speed round. #reinvent https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/1201953001528811520
The flip side of “lock-in” is “level-up” #reInvent
“AWS Neuron is a software development kit (SDK) enabling high-performance deep learning inference using AWS Inferentia custom designed machine learning chips.”
https://github.com/aws/aws-neuron-sdk
Replying to @sallamar
Nice way to put it.
Replying to @QuinnyPig
Umm...
Replying to @tuxology
To me that’s a choice under uncertainty with context-sensitive migration costs over time.
The spectre of “lock-in” is often used in an unhelpful, fear-triggering way.
Replying to @geoff_baskwill
Upvote
Useful for moving those Lambda RDS connections to somewhere more stable #reinvent
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-rds-proxy-available-in-preview
In other news, thanks @GitPrime for this! Great lineup including @kstewart on making empathy a manager’s primary focus. 👍
RT @jaydestro: Yo if you are at reinvent please tip well. Got some friends working at places you’re at. Take care of the service team even…
RT @QuetzalliAle: So excited to meet some of my AWSome twitter friends at last!!
@jbesw @virgilvox 🤖
“I’m not really a fan of low-code / no-code / just drag-and-drop-from-our-catalogue forms of application development.” https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/12/04/declarative-assembly-of-web-applications-from-pre-defined-concepts/
👇💯
“Machine learning is more than just the model.”
Introducing Amazon SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes | AWS Machine Learning Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-amazon-sagemaker-operators-for-kubernetes/
Replying to @JoeEmison, @forrestbrazeal and @theburningmonk
It’s documented & there was a `Alias.ProvisionedConcurrencyConfiguration` property in the JSON spec (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-resource-specification.html), but it appears to have been removed in the latest posted version. /cc @AWSCloudFormer
Replying to @robotterror
It will 👊
RT @rakyll: Devops and serverless are not conflicting concepts. Ops is not just about operating infrastructure.
Replying to @ben11kehoe and @mndoci
Yep.
Replying to @ben11kehoe and @mndoci
RT @ben11kehoe: Next-gen API Gateway: HTTP simpler, faster, and for cheaper! #reInvent
Not historically a sticker person, but thinking that the 8-bit graphic on the #theunicornproject sleeve might change that.
Replying to @rchrdbyd
#lightless
Finished #TheUnicornProject
Rating:
Give your organization the gift of learning this holiday season.
Thanks @RealGeneKim for writing it. Any plans for 8-bit 🦄 stickers? 😀 https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1202481947127119872
Replying to @hichaelmart
I think so?
Seems like “X is serverless, so you pay for only the resources you use and the service automatically scales tables up and down in response to application traffic.” also applies to an auto-scaled ASG? 🤔
https://aws.amazon.com/mcs/
Replying to @edjgeek
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: PUNCH
TIL “AWS AppConfig” and “AWS Config” are both valid service names.
Replying to @dberkholz
I try to avoid that word whenever possible.
Replying to @vllry
Maybe a giant pizza for a cross-team meeting? One “config” usage is for compliance/drift detection and the other is for dynamic mutation. 🤷♂️
Replying to @mweagle
AWS AppConfig manages gradual config rollout/back based on live metrics, which is good, but understandably isn’t represented in CFN.
Lambda deploys use CodeDeploy (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/implementing-safe-aws-lambda-deployments-with-aws-codedeploy/) to control the stack lifecycle within a CFN workflow.
ConfigDeploy?
Replying to @ben11kehoe and @rjlohan
I was thinking you might have some opinions on this 😉
RT @mattlemay: This is a pitch-perfect example of how company jargon is weaponized to reinforce hierarchies and exploit labor. https://t.co…
“Thoughtfulness”
I’m going to go ahead and disagree with that. https://twitter.com/mattlemay/status/1202641989637988359
Lead time & feedback cycles.
“We would focus our energy solely on improving data scientist productivity by being fanatically human-centric.” https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-metaflow-a-human-centric-framework-for-data-science-fa72e04a5d9
Replying to @ianfoo
Ugh. Speedy recovery 👊
RT @seanjtaylor: My old data science team at Facebook would formally acknowledge a type of impact we called “preventing a doomed course of…
Got a ticket to @DeliveryConf here in SEA next January. Should be fun!
https://www.deliveryconf.com/
When XPath is the right tool for the job.
“Software people often fail to appreciate that cloud services are so much more than just an instance of software, and operations is its own competency.”
Dining Preferences of the Cloud and Open Source: Who Eats Who? – Platformonomics https://www.platformonomics.com/2019/11/dining-preferences-of-the-cloud-and-open-source-who-eats-who/
Replying to @krishnan
How is “right” defined here?
Ok, Zoomer
Replying to @krishnan
If a developer is the sole decider and they are driven by Resume Driven multi-cloud Development does that also mean their organization has a deliberate multi-cloud strategy?
RT @kstewart: I contributed to 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know (out now!) and I know several engineers on this site who sho…
RT @JillWetzler: @kstewart Hella wish I would have known about the manager book! 😭
“[T]he dirty little secret of data science: While most of the hype is concentrated on the last 10% of the work that is ML and training, 90% of the work comes earlier.”
https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/08/aws-sagemakers-new-machine-learning-ide-isnt-ready-to-win-over-data-scientists/
Replying to @whiskersedge
“Cleaning the data” really undersells it.
Yeah....can’t do it.
This is nonsensical. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1203999522910855168
RT @patrickdebois: flight booked for @DeliveryConf !
Any chance you’ll be there @richburroughs ? https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1203077473962840066
RT @EricaJoy: geez this was quick. i would really like to learn about the tactical/logistical things required to replace a ceo that quickly…
Yes. https://twitter.com/samlightstone/status/1204490970005463040
Replying to @ianfoo
So about 1.33 cybertruckbucks? 😱
Replying to @rchrdbyd and @tmclaughbos
“The AWS CDK supports TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, and C#/.Net.” 😢
Replying to @rchrdbyd and @tmclaughbos
Oh, but I do.
Early morning in the PNW around the winter solstice:
Replying to @oter
At least for me after being here a few years, by 8pm in December it felt like time to go to bed, and by 8pm in June meant that it was probably time to think about having dinner.
Replying to @perrito666 and @bketelsen
Medical Learning is born.
Replying to @ben11kehoe and @tmclaughbos
Slack, when the notifications didn’t fall
“SQL is already a structured, typed language; we should be generating correct, type-safe code in every programming language from the source of truth: SQL itself.”
Introducing sqlc - Compile SQL queries to type-safe Go https://conroy.org/introducing-sqlc
“Pipelining is the key to achieve that uniform set of sequential code blocks.”
https://towardsdatascience.com/https-medium-com-tirthajyoti-build-pipelines-with-pandas-using-pdpipe-cade6128cd31
RT @nimak: a week after we released #ytt, here comes the blog post @dmitriykalinin and I wrote about why we believe this is the templating…
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but this is available to read for free.
https://snafucatchers.github.io/
RT @vllry: SLO: 99.5% This service: ✅
Replying to @vllry
Truth.
Replying to @vllry
Not sure if you like podcasts - https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/ has good conversations as well.
One with @adrianco: https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/e/papod-78-chaos-monkeys-adrian-cockcroft/
Replying to @perrito666 and @webRat
Same. Anyone have some gnarly queries laying around they can try with?
This sounds like a great book. https://overcast.fm/+QLdvEcGtM
MAE, MAPE, MSE, etc. are nothing compared to FAE: Fundamental Attribution Error
“If you’re going to fail, fail properly dammit!”
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/06/15/gray-failure-the-achilles-heel-of-cloud-scale-systems/
Slack: where I can’t have an emoji as part of my displayname, but I can have email relayed by a slackbot.
Replying to @shanselman
Yes. Diet changes (citrus, chocolate, etc.) can also trigger.
“We have a trust issue.”
Everyone Thinks They’re Managing by Outcomes. Here’s How to Actually Do it.(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xdYgBF
Exporting data from @Medium is a leisurely process
“We’ve run into a few other gotchas and lessons learned, some mentioned previously but here is a list. In true Festivus fashion…”
https://www.trek10.com/blog/lambda-destinations-what-we-learned-the-hard-way/
RT @kstewart: “Managers don’t want to be involved in the details. Teams don’t want to be micromanaged. But until we address the trust issue…
Slack: where I can go through every group’s “Advanced " preferences to restore the previous Markdown-aware text input.
Exhibit 1,537,900 in the Mismanage what you Mismeasure saga. https://twitter.com/TheQAblog/status/1206248110952984577
RT @copyconstruct: “Rather than acting as a server replacement, Lambda is effectively a force multiplier, with each CPU core overseeing the…
😎 https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1205230675541905408
I need to get to PDX to see Big Game Dame
👇💯
“Outcomes over Outputs.” https://overcast.fm/+HW1CWpeqU
This seems a bit shortsighted if true. https://twitter.com/KevKubernetes/status/1206957674056695808
Replying to @QuinnyPig
It does. Hopefully it translates into GCP meeting customers more where they are rather than concluding that customers “Just Don’t Move Fast Enough” and moving on.
If data is the new oil, we need more than Standard Oil.
“It isn’t just about hiring sales people. It is about changing your development process so that it meets enterprise customers needs.”
Did Google just have their Osborne Moment? https://www.yesthatblog.com/post/0051-googles-osborne-moment/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Escaping the Build Trap
“Products, as I said before, are vehicles of value. They deliver value repeatedly to customers and users, without requiring the company to build something new every time.”
Replying to @dberkholz
Just getting into it & like it so far.
Replying to @dberkholz
Thx. Would you recommend it?
There are a lot of head-scratching statements in https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-cloud-competition.html
Replying to @mweagle
Timely quote from “Escaping the Build Trap”:
You need to be able to lead with a value proposition for your users, or you will not be able to make money.
Replying to @QuetzalliAle
Thanks :)
Replying to @whiskersedge
I hear that. I’m very sympathetic to the pushback from creators who now need to compete with “protocol compatible” versions of their products that also leverage the existing brand awareness.
🙌 https://twitter.com/danilop/status/1207322387655647234
RT @michaelhilton: I am really interested in creating a class on Software Engineering for Data Science. Besides the awesome materials from…
Dear NBA commentators, “Score the ball” is 🤦♂️ inducing.
RT @BrachiPackter: @mweagle Honestly I can say it will be huge loss if it will happen, in data world GCP bits AWS: GCP PubSub ve Kinesis, D…
Replying to @ianfoo
“N. Y.T.”
Bringing my whole self to git.
Yep. https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1070475822253785089
Replying to @RealGeneKim, @ITRevBooks and @notoriousMVK
An 8-bit 🦄 sticker would be tremendous :)
RT @JoeEmison: The more time I spend with low-code/no-code platforms, the more convinced I am that the much better option is giving develop…
The Phoenix Project is FREE today (Kindle format): https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B078Y98RG8
Replying to @JoeEmison
Same. I understand the initial appeal of low/no-code approaches, but have never found them sustainable.
RT @PreetamJinka: Purchased! book_backlog++ https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1207692429320544258
RT @mekkaokereke: This is such a great tip.
Also echoed by Jeff Dean at Google when a group of black and brown software engineers asked hi…
The Catalina “Upgrade Now” button responds to mouse events, but doesn’t trigger the actual upgrade.
Is this a sign?
Replying to @mweagle
Rebooted & no change. Catalina will have to wait for 2020.
Replying to @edyesed
Replying to @edyesed
Mood
RT @DeliveryConf: 2 more days left to get our biggest discount - up to 30% off #DeliveryConf tickets! Join us for great #DevOps and #conti…
🎵 I’m dreaming of a green Christmas 🎵 https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle/status/1208058255882113024
Sure, cloud systems are cool and all, but have you ever tried to unclog a downspout in a downpour?
Wait, are those the same thing?
#2019AchievmentUnlocked
Replying to @jhscott
Interesting read: https://yurichev.com/mirrors/C/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
Ray for the Curious - Distributed Computing with Ray - Medium https://medium.com/distributed-computing-with-ray/ray-for-the-curious-fa0e019e17d3
“Ray is targeting software developers.”
https://pocket.co/xdjmub
Replying to @mweagle
And for the #serverless aspect:
“That’s a very different approach, a very limited programming model, and restricted in terms of the things you can do,” Nishihara said of serverless. “What we’re doing is much more general.”
RT @seanjtaylor: This holiday season when I’m at parties and people inevitably ask about my job, I’m trying my best to not downplay it. It’…
Not all records should be broken:
“Today we broke an amazing record--it was the darkest day on record here in Seattle.”
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog: The Darkest Day in Seattle History https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-darkest-day-in-seattle-history.html
“My writeup focuses on what I found most surprising and where I perceived the largest gaps between work as imagined and work as done...” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xdj_9Y
For a moment I thought the Catalina upgrade was running, on the Winter Solstice day.
Replying to @vllry
Ugh. I’m not even sure I want to upgrade at this point.
RT @CoralineAda: It’s amazing to me how white American culture perpetuates the idea of success through individual heroics or genius, while…
Eddie!
RT @jumpedforjoi: Keenan Thompson is the glue of SNL. I’m glad he got his moment on the SNL stage with his heroes.
“What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.” http://a.co/7fvhLUF
World: LEDs are cheap and we can use them everywhere.
Streaming HW manufacturers: Backlights are the work of the Devil and we must not provide any user affordances for tactile button behaviors. Design so that exit is always more likely than pause. Also, make remotes small.
“Instead of sending down mandates, organizations should, instead, turn to aligning every level of the company around the why and should give the next layer down the opportunity to figure out the how and report back.”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/149197379X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_qhfaEbDHVCEEA
Replying to @mweagle
Spot on @lissijean
Replying to @ShawnRMclean
Yes. It’s as important to “Build the Thing Right” as it is to “Build the Right Thing”.
It encourages different engineering manager questions (“Did we achieve the outcome” vs “Did we deliver feature X by Date”) which help encourage autonomy and alignment.
“Based on the survey, we expect the demand for serverless to grow in the near term as another worthwhile infrastructure option for many organizations.”
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/oreilly-serverless-survey-2019-concerns-what-works-and-what-to-expect
My mental soundtrack when the “Always/never/sometimes deploy on Fridays thread” comes around again.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0lVdukU9ejbFQwZIhg47hx?si=KwKafdegQvWVnH4aSYqE9w
Replying to @copyconstruct
Conversation at a whiteboard
RT @saasbooster: Morning followers! Given the recent events, I’m now offering to help #startups port their #firebase #apps to @AWSAmplify.…
Quality solid wood ping pong table 🏓
Replying to @JustinBeckwith and @copyconstruct
Me neither. 😞
Chuck Todd is not good at his “job”.
http://pressthink.org/2019/12/the-christmas-eve-confessions-of-chuck-todd/
Among the many great insights and suggestions in @lissijean ‘s book is this one:
“That. Is. Insane.”
Hint: it’s about budgeting.
Great book about becoming product-focused.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920056836.do
RT @kstewart: Lots of food for thought for the Kubernetes community. 🧵👇🏿 https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1210120452061847553
Please unroll @threadreaderapp https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1210120452061847553
“It doesn’t come across as very forward thinking.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1210120452061847553.html
2020 prediction: “Serverless will get a new name.” https://overcast.fm/+RrT3kAME
Replying to @joshroppo
“OutcomeFull”?
Bold move around these parts
https://twitter.com/alexwilliams/status/1210309599288582155
Replying to @theburningmonk
Start with an existing Sinatra/Express/WSGI app with Mongo/MySQL/PostgreSQL and migrate it to fully serverless. “Serverless benefits” section that includes authz/authn, dist. tracing, ML anomaly detection, SIEM, FinOps, etc.
“I believe that the best engineering managers are often great debuggers. Why would this be? What is it about these two tasks that produces such an overlapping skill set?”
https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897
Space movie setup: Astronauts are nearly superhuman. They are the best of humanity.
Thirty minutes into movie: Astronauts are irrational, shortsighted, and tend to attack each other with tools.
Replying to @jbesw
Guess what we were watching?
“Asian and African American people were up to 100 times more likely to be misidentified than white men...” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal-study-confirms-racial-bias-many-facial-recognition-systems-casts-doubt-their-expanding-use/
Eerily accurate summary of my 2019, including: “It has to work.”(via @Pocket) #longreads
http://deliprao.com/archives/227
Yes, some amount of work is needed, and also maybe visit the seaside? https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/15/henri-poincare-on-how-creativity-works/
Replying to @mweagle
Also, is not possible in many situations.
“A thoughtful engineering manager recognizes all hard work, especially if it’s not super flashy.”
http://firstround.com/review/this-is-what-impactful-engineering-leadership-looks-like
I am so confused.
Replying to @StegerPatrick
Moreso that it’s on ESPN 🤷♂️
YSLT?
$ytt(via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xdklbz
Castaway.
Keep Wilson. https://twitter.com/BeerBottleBlond/status/1210653864115998720
And yet none of those ways include the low-friction “Click here” option @nytimes
TIL: “The common explanation for the bridge collapse—that the bridge’s resonant frequency matched the frequency of the wind, which set the bridge on an ever-increasing oscillation—is now known to be false.” https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tacoma-narrows-bridge
RT @fintanr: @copyconstruct 100% agree and I’d love to see this, but until as an industry we get past the “special snowflake status” every…
So far so good using https://github.com/bgadrian/medium-to-hugo to move off Medium and onto @Netlify
Replying to @Netlify
Configure the @GoHugoIO version:
https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-netlify/#configure-hugo-version-in-netlify
Replying to @ianfoo and @Netlify
I hear that. There are some nicer ones available and definitely better than anything I could make :)
I’m using https://themes.gohugo.io/theme/minimal/ to ensure the content is working. Also considering https://themes.gohugo.io/mediumish-gohugo-theme/
The shortcodes & code highlighting are so much easier to work with.
Replying to @ianfoo
Same - the design and reach/feedback options are things I’ll miss. I need to figure out how to get text to wrap around images in @GoHugoIO and fear CSS is in my future...
RT @ianfoo: @mweagle @GoHugoIO Oh man. Well, I’m sure Hugo-using, blogging Twitter may be a help here.
For reach, http://dev.to…
Replying to @ianfoo and @GoHugoIO
Didn’t know about that - thanks!
Replying to @jbesw and @Netlify
I have used parts of Amplify (https://github.com/mweagle/SpartaAmplify) and at least for this, I’m hoping I can use something a bit less powerful :)
“Currently, you can deploy serverless functions built with JavaScript and Go.” 🙌
https://docs.netlify.com/functions/overview/#manage-your-serverless-functions
Migrating to @Netlify side effect: realizing I haven’t written anything in a while.
`go` generics would be helpful for AWS Lambda middleware chaining.
Ref: https://github.com/justinas/alice
Last bit of sunshine for a while.
