RT @saasbooster: Start #2020 strong! @startupdaemon @AkuaWalters @davidmullings @joserosado @TheBrometheus @mweagle @bobbydigitales!!!
🧵
Algorithmic bias doesn’t require AI/ML. https://twitter.com/MehrsaBaradaran/status/1212153984883945472
Wishing you an observable #serverless year. 🎉🙌 https://overcast.fm/+NmGM_0DXM
Replying to @patrickdebois and @snyksec
Congrats! Hope to meet you at @DeliveryConf
New Year, New Sandwich
It’s pretty good 👍🐔
Starting 2020 by staring into the darkness that is cgo, Docker, cross-compiling, and go modules.
Replying to @mweagle
This error seemed so innocuous.
Replying to @joshroppo
Most appreciated. Made some progress. I have things building now at least. My workflow is GH commit repo 1, push, update `go mod`, retry in repo 2.
Next up is to get the libs into a Lambda layer with the proper names. They’re ~300mb.
RT @ireaderinokun: I think the reason I need breaks from Twitter more than any other social media is because it’s genuinely mentally deplet…
Replying to @basche42 and @kelseyhightower
s https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode is at nearly 35k ⭐️
RT @vboykis: Speaking as a Machine Learning Person who Does Machine Learning Things, this is absolutely false. https://avc.com/2019/12/what-happened-in-the-2010s/ http…
Replying to @edyesed
Daenerys ZipTargaryen: breaker of size limits 🐉📦
Replying to @mweagle
Grrr....
“To have a healthy ecosystem you need to go back and revisit. You need to occasionally throw stuff away and replace it with better stuff.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xdq3bL
Replying to @mweagle
At least I’m not alone.
https://link.medium.com/eJSv2GlhW2
“Furthermore, in very broad brushstrokes, it’s not the core competency of enterprises to become experts in running a Kubernetes cluster anymore than it is to build out and maintain custom data centers.” https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/a-decade-in-review-in-tech-1cde76c9b43c
“This is a big part of why I’m excited about serverless: it’s the start of a big opportunity to make all the magic of distributed systems even more widely and simply available.” https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/01/02/why-distributed.html
“Resilience is what people do, and being resilient involves likely doing things you’ve not done before.”
Studying an Incident(via @Pocket) https://m.subbu.org/studying-an-incident-8dffdd641c78
Replying to @robotterror
Welcome back! 👋
“A number of vendors have offerings designed to aid users in achieving the nirvana of multi-cloud.
Frankly, this is a solution in search of a problem.”(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xdR8v5
RT @francismmaxwell: A church catches fire and the entire world stops, news is everywhere and billions are raised overnight. But when our p…
Pre-paid AWS organization accounts with hard cost caps. #awswishlist
Replying to @sallamar and @ben11kehoe
Exactly. I want to foster experimentation and ameliorate fear/downside risk for orgs trying to find their Cloud Path.
What’s a good charity to donate in support of those affected by the Australian fires?
Replying to @richbuggy
Thanks
RT @richbuggy: @mweagle https://www.redcross.org.au/campaigns/disaster-relief-and-recovery-donate
Replying to @nconnaughton
Thanks & appreciate the fire service link. They are heroes.
RT @nconnaughton: @mweagle Red Cross seems the best bet to help people impacted. Also you can donate to the Rural Fire Service that fights…
RT @LeJapCestMoi: @mweagle @danilop Check https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/ejqncy/ways_to_donate_fundraise_and_volunteer_this/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf lots of good options.
Bit of sunshine before the next round 🌧
RT @vllry: How does one find a good career coach?
“I shared some of the structural tips at the end with him, and then he liked it a lot better, so now I’m sharing them with you.”
Easier CloudFormation - Cloud Security - Medium https://medium.com/cloud-security/easier-aws-cloudformation-47a30c631963
“Our experience working with companies, however, suggests that relying exclusively on quantitative measures is neither necessary nor optimal.”(via @Pocket) #longreads https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/with-goals-fast-beats-smart/
“But from my father, I learned there are ways to fight back. Facing racism encountered daily within IBM, my father relied on his community for support.”(via @Pocket) https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-20/ibm-nazi-germany-tech-racism-father
Huzzah!
📦 https://twitter.com/ChrisWahl/status/1214245187913957377
“Once the events are scheduled, you can check the Change Calendar programmatically to determine whether changes are allowed or blocked at any given time. “
Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/01/introducing-aws-systems-manager-change-calendar/
👇 https://twitter.com/martin_casado/status/1213908827822686208
Replying to @mpchlets
So far very unhappy with 2020, but this content could be the sign that things are turning around.
Replying to @edyesed
Change Manager Advisory Board Calendar Manager for Managed Systems
Replying to @edyesed
This is the way
“[C]ode in production is the only code that matters. Staging doesn’t matter, code on your laptop doesn’t matter, QA doesn’t matter, only production matters. Everything else is debt.”
Production Oriented Development - Paul Osman - Medium https://medium.com/@paulosman/production-oriented-development-8ae05f8cc7ea
Equilibrium https://twitter.com/bencasselman/status/1214312755433476096
Replying to @kstewart and @instapaper
Yep: “No one is going to experiment with new ways of doing things if you fetishize finishing under deadlines.”
The plan is not the objective.
Replying to @mreferre and @LinkedIn
Is “Twitter Thought Litterer” acceptable?
Several presentations by @lyft ers at the consistently excellent https://conferences.oreilly.com/strata-data-ai/stai-ca conference.
This leadership talk by @nickcald is 🔥.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_skPf5nOM
Replying to @kstewart and @nickcald
2020: so far, not a fan.
Replying to @benkershner
Sorry about your 2019, hopefully 2020 is better.
At least globally, seems like 2020 is doubling down on dumb.
“I developed a questionnaire that I had clients fill out before a project started, and then throughout the project I’d help them refine their answers.”
Data project checklist · http://fast.ai https://www.fast.ai/2020/01/07/data-questionnaire/
“Serverless functions are a type of managed service that enable developers to deploy production-scale systems without needing to worry about infrastructure.”
(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xd2ocM
“In essence, we want personal websites to have a more powerful role in the ecosystem, while we still benefit from the value that community platforms create.”(via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xd2oDe
Seems legit
Replying to @edyesed
I should file a bug.
RT @VladimirVivien: I switched couple projects to GitHub Actions and I am happy. Less glue/integration shell script/make code to get build…
TBH, it doesn’t seem as though you like it that much.
Replying to @perrito666
Ah, “we like that about you” versus “we like you”.
Meal/hiking/sports bars sold in individual wrappers that provide nutritional information in 1/2 bar serving sizes.
“The people we are and systems we have matter.”
I don’t want the best – Jessitron https://blog.jessitron.com/2020/01/09/i-dont-want-the-best/
2020: The year you should subscribe to @dberkholz ’s newsletter:
https://nuzzel.com/dberkholz/2020/01/10
“[N]one of the actual issues faced by Black women and girls in computing are technical-related. If you give anyone proper access to opportunities and allow them to explore and learn...then they can and will learn computer science fundamentals.” https://pocket.co/xd2vYV
“Every Platform team should be asking themselves: what is our differentiator? What do we offer than makes it worthwhile for our company to invest in our team, rather than throwing those engineers at the product?”
“How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers” https://srvaroa.github.io/paas/infrastructure/platform/kubernetes/cloud/2020/01/02/talk-how-to-build-a-paas-for-1500-engineers.html
RT @perrins: Focus on the Glue not the point tools use tools with at least one major company behind them :) spot on , resonates with the wo…
Evergreen talk
“Easy is a relative term. Something may be easy for someone and difficult for someone else.”
#Simple Made Easy https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
I think this sets up unreasonable expectations about how much work still has to be done *inside the app* and *across the system* to achieve those very admirable qualities.
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/ view/kubernetes-up-and/9781492046523/ch03.html
@edyesed - are you involved with this? 💪
RT @postwait: Unpopular opinion...
I’ve always liked XML, the verbosity being my least favorite part. It’s expressive, extensible, transfo…
Seahawks receivers taking same approach that #Snowpocalypse2020 businesses are...
They won’t be open either.
Game over
Replying to @joshroppo
Yeah, sorry about that. It was for the #SEAvsGB game.
Also, that seems totally plausible.
wat is a “PizzaPlatform”
“Crust”?
Replying to @mweagle
“We’re all about the AI...Also, each pizza made to order.”
ML: Marinara Leanings
Replying to @seanjtaylor
Replying to @mweagle
Passing this along...
It’s the yeast I could do.
https://twitter.com/richdemuro/status/1214955597025538049?s=21 https://twitter.com/richontech/status/1214955597025538049
Replying to @mweagle
Do Terminators Dream of Electric Pizza Ovens?
Replying to @edyesed
Not sure. That sounds also terrifying.
Replying to @lxztlr
Yep. I’m also guessing that the only way to pay for the pizzas is via Bitcoin.
RT @nhuntwalker: I just started reading The Phoenix Project like 3 hours ago or so and I’m already at Chapter 11. I’m almost ashamed of mys…
Unsubstantiated take: the imperative mood of most programming instructional materials is a hinderance to recognizing (1) the importance of wholistic systems and (2) critical role of D&I/trusted space for open communication.
Same. Research paper recommendations appreciated. https://twitter.com/mattklein123/status/1216465886845882368
HTTP connection reuse mood
I gave in and started to put stickers on my laptop.
Replying to @vllry
OOHHHHHH...I’m going to swing by your desk RSN :)
Replying to @maxharris9
If I cover the entire thing with enough sticker layers and can’t open it does that make me eligible for a 16" MBP with a keyboard?
Asking for a minimal key travel friend.
Replying to @jbesw, @edjgeek, @munns, @virgilvox, @rts_rob, @benjamin_l_s and @julian_wood
Most appreciated and I’m readying myself...
Any chance you’re visiting SEA soon @richburroughs ? https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1217204267343200256
Replying to @richburroughs and @DeliveryConf
Same - excellent! I’ll find you 😀
One of the better things about 2020: @JaMorant 🏀
Forgot how good this album is:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5v4Vx9loqMQCS3J7OmP9pa?si=eouc_XaaTF-0Hm9_EbJfxQ
Replying to @kstewart
Put the raisins away, Karen.
“The piece of advice that I give to new managers—and this sounds simple but it’s really hard—is you have to really listen to your people.”(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xdyiKX
Replying to @dberkholz
Totally agree.
‘In the tech world, there are really three distinct types of, loosely speaking, “product teams.”’(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xdyb8T
Sensing a theme @dberkholz
“The direction for improvement is clear: seek detail you would not normally notice about the world.”(via @Pocket) #longreads http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
“Ultimately, work-life balance comes down to knowing when and how to just let things go.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xdybgl
“In our industry, the deep innovations are expensive and “expensive” only make sense when the volumes are truly massive.”
AWS Graviton2 – Perspectives(via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xdybVw
So much real estate remains. #Stickers2020
Replying to @kstewart
Replying to @ianfoo
I hear that & it’s stopped me too. I had to suppress my symmetry tendency and embrace the process.
Pro tip: inline assembly is easier than management.
2020: The Year of the Unicorn 🦄 #TeamMaxine https://overcast.fm/+RrRqEcBI
I feel like this could go in so many directions.
“Focus on your software...not on deploying it to Kubernetes.”
https://kudo.dev/
Interesting
“Amazon Neptune now offers a workbench...[t]he workbench lets you quickly and easily query your Neptune databases with Jupyter notebooks.”
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-neptune-workbench-provides-in-console-experience-to-query-your-graph/
Replying to @patrickdebois
Going to https://thanhviseattle.com/ ?
It’s only “infrastructure” until it stops being invisible.
The landscape...is vast.
Shout out to https://mattturck.com/data2019/
RT @kstewart: @mweagle Just when you think nothing could be more impenetrable than the CNCF landscape chart someone comes along and says “H…
Replying to @kstewart
Yep. I’m sure there’s a k8s icon in there somewhere, so we can nest them. 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢
Teammate rating: 💯 out of 💯 https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/1219480792872751105
Replying to @forrestbrazeal, @jeremy_daly and @QuinnyPig
Congrats!
Lots of good learnings in this thread alone. Looking forward to reading more. 🎉
This resource guide by @RealGeneKim is fantastic. 🙌
‘[T]he technology challenges we face today are genuine business challenges, that cannot be delegated away to “those technology people.”’(via @Pocket) #longreads https://itrevolution.com/resource-guide-to-the-unicorn-project-part-1/
First takeaway from #deliveryconf
“Embrace the awful.”
🙌
Replying to @PaulDJohnston and @DivineOps
I missed yesterday, so today is the day I hope to meet @DivineOps!
“If you’re on the legacy team, and you’re doing a transformation, you’re doing the dopest stuff on the planet.”
@nicolefv at #deliveryconf
RT @seclectech: Change Culture by Doing https://lean.org/Search/Documents/35.pdf #DeliveryConf
Q: “What is one thing everyone can do when they go back to work tomorrow to improve their organization?”
@nicolefv: “Be kind to someone. Give someone a voice who is currently underrepresented.”
#deliveryconf
Next up: @jezhumble and @maryamumar on Quality.
Replying to @jezhumble and @maryamumar
Request: “Please fix quality”
Start with “what do you mean by quality?”
#DeliveryConf
Replying to @jezhumble and @maryamumar
“Assuring Quality enables teams to drive for customer satisfaction at a sustainable pace.”
@maryamumar @ #DeliveryConf
Replying to @jezhumble and @maryamumar
First understand where you are, then run experiments to affect the impacted metrics, and evaluate the results.
Check the BFD for options: https://www.devops-research.com/research.html
#DeliveryConf
Replying to @jezhumble and @maryamumar
Metrics are hard though, what are some good ones to start with?
(Internally shouting): https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339
Replying to @jezhumble and @maryamumar
Couple interesting ones: MTTG(reen) for the build, Percentage of flaky tests.
Replying to @jezhumble and @maryamumar
Metrics are easy to create.
Accurate metrics require psychological safety.
Replying to @jezhumble and @maryamumar
Conclusion, TL;DR;
1. Quality is subjective 2. Start by creating a vision, select some metrics, and start measuring 3. Allow measurements to evolve and guide what teams work on
RT @Taylorb_msft: “finally, a Fortran Web Framework”... Never thought I’d see those words in the same sentence.
https://fortran.io/
Replying to @TheAmyCode and @sigje
Related: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-diving-save/
This man is a pen-tester https://t.co/4tmkNMckFi
Replying to @ShawnRMclean, @TheAmyCode and @sigje
You bet! Lots more good stuff by him in https://www.amazon.com/dp/1484221575/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_v9EkEb9HD90AG
🤬🤬🤬 https://twitter.com/Envy_Noir/status/1220435642364108800
Replying to @_abhayshah
Update to the Google DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)
Replying to @benkershner, @acvisneski and @rchrdbyd
If you call it a microservice is it cooler?
https://github.com/miy4/docker-plantuml
Replying to @benkershner, @acvisneski and @rchrdbyd
Exercise left to the reader.
We’re looking for a Director of ML at @Lyft in either SEA or SFO. Come work with me and an outstanding team! 🚗 👋
https://boards.greenhouse.io/lyft/jobs/4441875002?gh_jid=4441875002
ICYMI... https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1220562940811628544
MFW one on the team is getting an opportunity to show how excellent they are.
“Over a decade in the making, the accelerating arrival of new technology after new technology – and more problematically, new category after new category – is beginning to outstrip business’ ability to consume them.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xdb7yS
“[M]achine learning solutions in production and at large-scale is very different from fitting a model to a pre-processed dataset. In practice, a large part of the effort that goes into developing a model is spent on feature engineering and data wrangling.” https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/feature-store-the-missing-data-layer-in-ml-pipelines
Replying to @brianleroux
Something I heard this week: “Own the problem, not the solution.”
Replying to @brianleroux
Word. From an engineering perspective I think evolutionary architecture (https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/architectural-fitness-function) is a way to make that actionable. Start with: “what’s our fitness function?”
If it’s not clear what we’re optimizing, it’s going to be tempting to conflate outputs and outcomes.
RT @nikovirtala: @mweagle @brianleroux I like that! It’s an excellent variant of the ”love the problem, not your solution” that lean startu…
It’s true. https://twitter.com/jschauma/status/1220909201628848131
🤔 Wouldn’t the cats make yoga look easy?
“The need to manage AI pipelines and models has given rise to the rapidly growing MLOps (or AIOps) category.”
Part II: Major Trends in the 2019 Data & AI Landscape – Matt Turck https://mattturck.com/2019trends/
Replying to @tweeshan
Good question. I haven’t seen much of that either & wonder if that’s more of a promise than a reality.
Is there anything like https://github.com/inspec/inspec that’s written in #go? Looking for a more self-contained deployment option.
RT @gwenshap: A frustrating experience for me is when I spend hours trying to convince a dude of something, and then another colleague says…
RT @nicolefv: @mekkaokereke My favorite quote there from @ava: ✨”There are other people who are excellent than the people who you know.” ✨…
Replying to @ickymettle
Thanks - will TAL.
RT @espn: Kobe Bryant was killed Sunday in a helicopter crash, as first reported by TMZ and confirmed by @wojespn.
He was 41. https://t.co…
Please unroll @threadreaderapp https://twitter.com/ajaynairthinks/status/1221513199238836225
RT @TimBontemps: Jackie MacMullan on Kobe Bryant, including thoughts from Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Jerry West on his passing - p…
Especially today. #Mamba https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1214708800382353409
“Many Forrester customers have reported MOOSE spending of 70% and more, which we’ve argued is a Bad Thing.”
The I&O Organization Under Pressure https://go.forrester.com/blogs/the-io-organization-under-pressure/
Another take on config /cc @ben11kehoe https://github.com/brendandburns/configula
Replying to @QuinnyPig and @forrester
I had never heard of it.
Replying to @robotterror, @QuinnyPig and @forrester
Or manage ibex vs catex?
Replying to @joshroppo
Yet Another Maddening Legacy
Progress
Replying to @jbesw
How long are you in town for?
“When a comparison is possible, Amazon SageMaker algorithms often run more than 10x faster than other ML solutions like Spark ML.”
Infinitely scalable machine learning with Amazon SageMaker - All Things Distributed https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/03/Infinitely-scalable-machine-learning-with-Amazon-SageMaker.html
Replying to @hichaelmart
Embarrassingly Serverlessful
Is that chapter published via RSS?
Replying to @skpodila and @Medium
You bet it is 😀
Replying to @bigdata
This can’t happen fast enough.
Looking forward to the DevSecOps and Jupyter notebook cross team kickoff meeting. 🍿 https://twitter.com/bigdata/status/1222029064757579777
Replying to @southpolesteve
I think that’s a winner
RT @vllry: I’m running for the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee.
Why?
I want to make cloud native technology really deliver on the goal…
Good conversation.
Testing doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. https://overcast.fm/+NvtsPYzEw
RT @hplociniczak: @mweagle I added Jupyter integration to our product :p Also checkout Polynote from Netflix’s eng team.
💜
The Oral History of Prince’s Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/1/29/21112539/prince-halftime-show-oral-history-super-bowl-xli
Replying to @mweagle
And for the *Ops crowd:
“And Tony, realizing we were now counting down to going on the air, took his pliers and stripped the insulation off the three cables. And he inserted them into a plug, just raw, and held that for the entire 12-and-a-half-minute duration, in the rain.”
Build for change https://overcast.fm/+BYHTMi4Q
“Dagster allows infrastructure engineers, data engineers, and data scientists to seamlessly collaborate to process and produce the trusted, reliable data needed in today’s world.” https://dagster.readthedocs.io/en/0.6.7.post0/
sortatonically increasing https://twitter.com/mgattozzi/status/1222598434655330304
Replying to @southpolesteve and @mj1856
Related good read: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2878574
Replying to @shidoshi
🤷♂️ Would like to learn more.
Good study about the pain points in computational notebooks for ML.
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Chattopadhyay2020CHI_NotebookPainpoints.pdf
Handy triage ordering:
(1) Customer blocked (2) Team blocked (3) Individual blocked
“I used to tolerate and expect complexity.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xdldxj
Please unroll @threadreaderapp https://twitter.com/sigje/status/1222610512535441408
Replying to @_abhayshah, @awscloud, @rchrdbyd, @austencollins, @goserverless and @danilop
Supporter?
“But what made me unhappy was how slow JSON was...” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xdlwmW
Replying to @heitor_lessa
Tensorflow libs hit the space limit IIRC
https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1212910893358432256?s=21 https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1212910893358432256
/cc @joshroppo https://twitter.com/rchrdbyd/status/1223295794213728258
/cc @vllry https://twitter.com/rchrdbyd/status/1223295794213728258
RT @defrag: http://Gluecon.com speakers now include: @lindybrandon @adrianco @juliaferraioli @alexwilliams @apihandyman @rstephensme @…
Excellent design space feature at the office: the interior of each door also has the room name and number.
Seems like Herb Simon could be mentioned more regarding DevOps, org structure, & cognitive load.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon
🤔
https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future