RT @geoff_baskwill: “We researched documentation extensively, and it turns out that the best sentences in the world consist primarily of wo…
Replying to @ben11kehoe
Replying to @forrestbrazeal
I’m all in with S3.
If a recipe starts by using a paper clip for preparation, it’s unlikely to be a good recipe.
Terrifying use of food products 👇 https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1233424272212795392
🤔
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
- Dijkstra
I use hot corners to activate the screen saver/lock screen. This generally is good, but every once and a while I brush past the trackball and inadvertently activate a corner. From a full screen of input to nothing is a bit of a jolt to the system.
This is not so good.
Replying to @shidoshi
Every time I wonder: “Is this the end? Will I need a new laptop?”
Then I realize I locked myself out. 🤦♂️
I’ve seen two people wearing “Polaroid” branded clothing in the past couple of days.
Hi, I’m an engineering manager. You might know me from my hits: “how can we make this simpler?”, “have you talked to anyone?”, and the evergreen #1 hit “let’s get better at getting better.” https://twitter.com/MinaMarkham/status/1233454056087011329
“As shown in the following diagram, only a small fraction of a real-world ML system is composed of the ML code. The required surrounding elements are vast and complex.” https://cloud.google.com/solutions/machine-learning/mlops-continuous-delivery-and-automation-pipelines-in-machine-learning
😎
https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/03/02/firecracker/
Replying to @richburroughs and @FireHydrantIO
Congrats! 🎉
Birth of the DAISY age. https://twitter.com/andscape/status/1234837178724864000
Replying to @kstewart
Eye Know
Replying to @nathankpeck
TIL FireLens is a thing.
Any suggestions for tools/services/guidelines that help create a “virtual conference” space? Looking to bridge the gap between everyone in a room and VC/shared doc.
“Embrace the reality of ever present, ubiquitous and distributed nature of data.”
How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html
Peak eng. mgmt day: sharing a slide deck presenting one way to make Jira play nice with Kanban.
Replying to @vllry
Thanks. 🙇
“In Kubeflow’s user surveys, data scientists have consistently expressed the importance of Jupyter notebooks.”
Kubeflow 1.0: Cloud-Native ML for Everyone - kubeflow - Medium https://medium.com/kubeflow/kubeflow-1-0-cloud-native-ml-for-everyone-a3950202751
Replying to @mweagle
What if Notebooks are the problem?
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Chattopadhyay2020CHI_NotebookPainpoints.pdf
Define objectives, not paths.
👇*💯
“Assigning Problems To Solve, Rather Than Features To Build” https://svpg.com/team-objectives-empowerment/
Replying to @edyesed
I love the smell of pointers in the morning.
“We paired our crispy, juicy fried chicken with vanilla-glazed donuts to create an epically sweet and savory flavor combination.”
Replying to @vllry
I’ll send you a link.
Replying to @jhscott and @vllry
I use a bunch of filters to help navigate things: https://gist.github.com/mweagle/fa8f114f291ec32747c1fcd190ab36e1
TIL Sonos makes for a good home for ants.
Replying to @Jowanza
We had a Sonos next to a plant. Apparently our ants enjoy modern architecture and that perforated metal screen design. Used compressed air for a start and will need to figure out how to take it apart to make sure.
Replying to @rmn
“We will, we will nest you...”
This series is very helpful. Minor nit is that I prefer “sustaining engineering” rather than “Keep the Lights On”. KTLO doesn’t mean much for an apt/homeowner, but it means a lot for a hydroelectric power plant operator.
https://svpg.com/team-objectives-action/
Replying to @skamille
How did they miss out on “deets” ?
Deployment is a river.
“Gandalf needs to be able to cope with constant change in systems and signals: new components emerge, and existing components evolve, changing the failure patterns and telemetry signals.”
https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/02/28/microsoft-gandalf/
fear-factor applications https://twitter.com/wattersjames/status/1235372529281142784
Replying to @PaulDJohnston
Replying to @richburroughs, @pczarkowski and @monkchips
Speaking of rad people: do you know @vllry ?
Replying to @rchrdbyd, @rocketattack and @QuinnyPig
we:Invent
Replying to @benkershner
“Your service must ingest these unbelievably malformed log messages...”
Replying to @Jowanza
It’s a thing...
https://en.community.sonos.com/wireless-speakers-228992/ants-in-my-sonos-play-1-6426753
Hoping the papers from https://mlops-systems.github.io/ will be made available /cc @matei_zaharia
“Diagrams let you draw a cloud system architecture in Python code.”
Introducing Diagrams: Diagram as Code - Better Programming - Medium https://medium.com/better-programming/diagrams-diagram-as-code-56fec222cdf6
This is a role where I can see how a whiteboard exercise would be valuable. https://twitter.com/espn/status/1226631334967357440
Replying to @benkershner and @BernieSanders
“We now turn to live footage of Bernie Sanders advancing towards the podium.”
Replying to @edyesed
Basically. I’ve also had success with http://js.cytoscape.org/ FWIW.
Replying to @chrismunns, @ben11kehoe and @mikebroberts
That’s keepin it 💯
Replying to @IamStan
Replying to @jboursiquot
Is it heavy lifting or the total of repetitive lifting over time?
@flyteorg + SageMaker at #reinvent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-wzIQQJKaE
What is a “DevOps Manager”?
“I’ve been able to use GitHub Actions to build some very unique tools for Data Scientists.”
https://fastpages.fast.ai/actions/markdown/2020/03/06/fastpages-actions.html
Strongly agree.
“We therefore postulate that there is a pressing need for increased automation of data validation.” http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p1781-schelter.pdf
Very helpful in fighting off chills coming from the North.
The TP crisis is real.
Compute in the front, data in the back.
https://twitter.com/__steele/status/1236497637462790144
RT @__steele: Very exciting news: AWS have submitted a PR (the first of a few to come) to Envoy to enable Lambda functions as targets in Ap…
“One lake to rule them all.” https://overcast.fm/+GdnVXKEqE
Replying to @mweagle
Show notes: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/domain-oriented-data/
On the plus side of 📉, it seems like somebody read https://www.amazon.com/dp/1680502395/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_tDKzEb3NWJXZV
Buddy movie I’d pay to watch RN
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9XJtxnH0as/
Day 2/2 of an app upgrade corrupting itself.
Upvote
https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/650
This (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaSDK/latest/javadoc/com/amazonaws/services/s3/AmazonS3URI.html) , but for `go`.
#awswishlist
Cloud One: What’s in your Bottlerocket
Any suggestions for distributed whiteboarding tools/tablets?
Replying to @davecheney, @kstewart, @nmeans and @SlackHQ
Replying to @ben11kehoe
That’s me
Replying to @_abhayshah
Yes. Those boxes and arrows convey a lot of information, even if they aren’t that pretty.
Yep. https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1214708800382353409
Replying to @_abhayshah
The AUS fires seem so long ago. Would not visit 2020 again.
Replying to @edyesed
We should not need a word for this. And yet here we are.
Up and to the right usually not a good sign.
March mood
Replying to @techandautism
I’m looking at a iPad mini, but not sure that’ll be large enough. Do you use a pencil with yours?
😎
https://overcast.fm/+E_eMvBVTE
1.5 Trillion
“Some in the market were skeptical that the move was enough.”
Replying to @mweagle
That’s ~8% of US annual GDP.
Replying to @joshroppo
Liquidity breakdown 🤷♂️. Back at 2008 levels:
https://yhoo.it/38MQx6H
Any suggestions for online/mobile device party-style games that are work appropriate? Trivia, Jeopardy style? Looking to create a bit of Friendly Friday virtual space for people.
If you’re looking at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-studio-the-first-fully-integrated-development-environment-for-machine-learning/ I’d recommend setting up CloudWatch spending alerts.
Replying to @dwhitena and @streamlit
This is a great idea & good luck!
Toilet paper remains elusive in SEA
IIUC, the Polly <amazon:*> tags aren’t NS alias prefixed but element literals? Adding an xmlns:amazon="" to the SSML input generates a parse error...
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html
Replying to @mweagle
wwtbd?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray#XML
Replying to @Jowanza
Cross Ply Fit
Drove around mall parking lot south of SEA. A bit less populated than normal (~33% down), similar to a Sunday Seahawks game.
Willful ignorance of exponential series is one heck of a drug.
Also: nurse. 🤷♂️
Replying to @TysonTrautmann
Yep. The drug came from inside the person. 😞
Gardening is a full contact sport. Don’t @ me.
Replying to @rchrdbyd
“Gardening” ranges from ‘plant 2” pansies” to ‘move a 300lb tree’. It has a branding problem.
Replying to @rchrdbyd
What happened?
Replying to @rchrdbyd
Ugh. Glad you’re ok. 👊
Replying to @rchrdbyd
Wow. That’s really frightening.
Hopefully this is quickly paired with a program to send checks to the affected.
At least locally we’re going to buy gift certificates. https://twitter.com/KING5Seattle/status/1239377893500899328
Replying to @rchrdbyd
How fleeting the glory of the 400 lb hacker.
Replying to @ryancox, @jbeda and @NWHarvest
Another one is Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission: https://www.ugm.org/blog/preventing-the-spread-of-covid-19/
Replying to @brianleroux
Yep - security is a feature.
Replying to @mweagle
➡️ Be extra considerate.
Replying to @mweagle
4️⃣ Everyone is dealing with unique and unprecedented circumstances and pressures.
Replying to @mweagle
3️⃣ Consider muting mobile alerts and using more scheduled video/audio times. Be comfortable canceling.
Replying to @mweagle
2️⃣ Slack notifications and the implicit expectation to respond quickly can create unneeded additional anxiety.
1️⃣ This isn’t typical remote/distributed working.
LOWER “PlEaSe No”.
“You can still create labels with different cases, for example ‘player’ and ‘Player’, but if you search for any of them, the results will contain issues from both these labels, so that nothing gets lost.”
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-24907
I’m sure there is a reason.
https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/3921#issuecomment-315581557
Replying to @mweagle
My functions start to activate, DAGs collaborate Cuz when I heard the FaaS, I just had to make Something from the top of my head So I fell into the groove of the edit and I said How could I move the event First of all, ain’t no servers allowed
Move the Event
Standing by the screen, suddenly I had this Thought, was it me or either Twitter madness Cuz I just can’t idle around So I get lambda and the better I get, the better it sound
Replying to @kstewart
🙇 ... The R is the greatest.
MSFT has deep experience in DevX workflows and this looks like a very rich source of raw materials.
Use-case: (1) s3 object written, (2) async task with s3 as destination is kicked off by event listener, (3) s3 result lands. That should be enough to release the `Wait`.
Propagating an API-specific receiptID & the polling logic is a bit tedious. https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/922135827127287808
Replying to @rchrdbyd
Replying to @richburroughs
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/fjtkit/high_five
“A design choice made in Go 1.2 causes this object to grow super-linearly in the number of functions in a program, in addition to the sum of their sizes.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xdLLzR
Replying to @ben11kehoe
Thx - will TAL.
“We are not yet able to provide precise estimates for how soon the Seattle Metro area health system will reach a tipping point...” https://institutefordiseasemodeling.github.io/COVID-public/reports/Working%20paper%20%E2%80%93%20model-based%20estimates%20of%20COVID-19%20burden%20in%20King%20and%20Snohomish%20counties%20through%20April%207.pdf
Hmm....
Replying to @robotterror
Small way to connect: create a chat “team-playlist” channel where team members occasionally post what they’re listening to.
Replying to @robotterror, @ben11kehoe, @TheCurrent and @kexp
I typically listen to full shows which aren’t linkable, but did find one free song from yesterday’s playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ueti0v9008
RT @ric__harvey: Every time I come back to @awscloud CDK I want to throw my laptop out the window. The breaking chances are such a waste o…
RT @IanColdwater: As a user, I want something that can aggregate my pile of calendars and documentation and communication apps, I want it n…
Working from home really highlights the stability of the OS X Bluetooth stack.
I don’t know what #HOMEcoming is and definitely don’t want to know what the Butthole Cats cut is.
Replying to @vllry
Currently living it up by using Markdown AST for config info.
RT @rts_rob: Going live in 2.5 hours (14:00 ET) - #serverless office hours! Bring your serverless #security and #Go questions.
https://t.c…
Replying to @mweagle
Those experiences don’t really apply now, so the techniques (if they ever were) distilled from those experiences don’t really transfer.
I’ve worked in an office, hybrid (me remote, team geolocated), pure distributed. There are techniques that I think I’ve learned from those experiences that help foster understanding and improve team performance .
Replying to @mweagle
If you can, create predictability and connections where you can. Optimize for empathy and flexibility. Try things.
You also may not be in a position to do that or have the energy to do so, so that’s also ok.
Replying to @mweagle
Working remote is different than working while managing daycare and at home teaching, worrying about parents who are at risk, close ones who are in helping professions, dogs who can’t go for a walk, and cats who keep knocking the phone off the desk in the midst of a pandemic.
“What is you say you do here?” https://twitter.com/ian_infosec/status/1240722817835991040
Replying to @mweagle
“I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS!”
http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=gog&media=MP3S&type=Movies&movie=Office_Space"e=whatyoudoatinitech.txt&file=whatyoudoatinitech.mp3
RT @acloudguru: It all comes down to this... Your votes have left only two cloud services standing: https://bit.ly/2TjsSpN It’s time to ca…
Black holes, but for data.
Data is transmitted by light.
Checkmate.
Replying to @pweiderholm and @KevinGoldsmith
Byte Bayou
Goal: find a way to make Pink the mascot of SLOs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/animalsdoingstuff/comments/f6btlg/pink_the_dog_destroying_westminster_dog_show/
“I believe that explaining things as simply as possible is a great skill to develop.”
On explaining technical stuff in a non-technical way — (Py)Spark https://towardsdatascience.com/explaining-technical-stuff-in-a-non-techincal-way-apache-spark-274d6c9f70e9
“If you change the foo setting, don’t forget that you also need to update all the clients…”
When correlation (or lack of it) can be causation – the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/03/13/correlation-x-2/
Well done @AnimalPlanet https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/entertainment/puppies-kittens-tv-trnd/index.html
CBS replaying Young Olajuwon 🙌
Replying to @Jowanza
Yeah - his footwork was incredible.
Hopefully when we’re in a better place soon, a documentary filmmaker will consider “[B]reathtaking acts of selfishness” for their film title.
Coronavirus leads to class warfare in Hamptons https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/we-should-blow-up-the-bridges-coronavirus-leads-to-class-warfare-in-hamptons/
RT @abbyfuller: This is pretty cool! Local Seattle places that are offering pickup or delivery during the social distancing/pandemic/quaran…
Early morning brief power outage at home.
Replying to @mweagle
Example of why KTLO isn’t my favorite acronym.
Replying to @shidoshi
Strongly agree
“With these fundamental techniques baked into your writing, the section you should spend the most time on in your documentation is the Getting Started section.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xd7f6a
Replying to @mweagle
Related: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
“Unlike many of our tools Dispatch is not tightly bound to AWS...”
“Introducing Dispatch” by Netflix Technology Blog
https://link.medium.com/2TwEpkkH64
Replying to @landongn
Can confirm.
Replying to @brianleroux
Hibernate: plz no.
Replying to @lindydonna, @annaspies, @deeheber, @FarrahC32 and @edyesed
Great idea! High time there was another virtual roundtable of the PNW Serverless cabal.
Replying to @lindydonna and @deeheber
Absolutely: https://join.slack.com/t/serverless-forum/shared_invite/zt-4uedcgwn-rEDdyH9VmasER6_iA_kXbA
I am the person who can’t make this week.
🙌 - week after next, same time?
This show really highlights the lack of style in my work at home wardrobe.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/beecham-house/
Recess seems like a good term for a bunch of adult-sized children.
Anyone else having Comcast outages?
Replying to @edyesed
K. The recommended option to remediate was to setup an on-site technician visit. Going to wait it out.
Replying to @awsgeek
That is a strong alert system you have at home.
Really not a good time for DOS attacks.
UI fail: telling me something will happen within 15 minutes but not including the system time stamp in that message.
RT @FarrahC32: @lindydonna @adjohn @johnkinmonth @mweagle @thoughtsonfly @annaspies @deeheber @edyesed @ewindisch @ben11kehoe @jeremy_daly…
“In 2019, city crews filled the cracks with epoxy” https://www.kuow.org/stories/city-has-known-about-cracks-in-west-seattle-bridge-since-2013
Same
Replying to @VladAIonescu
It’s painful.
Replying to @dbsmasher
Maybe https://www.altova.com/xmlspy-xml-editor ?
Replying to @abbyfuller
Yep. Possibly real reason for NYC as HQ?
Related: 🍕.
Day ? of self-quarantine: The day I finally find the proper IAM configuration to get S3 events to kick off a state machine.
Good use of AWS console & CLI inspection.
Replying to @darkuncle
That’s a good idea.
Replying to @DavidWells
Exactly.
When unique isn’t quite unique enough.
Replying to @dberkholz, @brianleroux, @filmaj and @alexbdebrie
Agree - I’d give AWS Neptune with SPARQL a look. Some related work at https://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/fo
Pricing might rule it out though. 🤷♂️
Replying to @ShawnRMclean
I can’t say, but there is a resemblance :)
Handy CLI tool to generate `go` structs from example JSON.
This is a useful tool that I really dislike needing.
Related: #awswishlist request for versioned JSON schema for all service events.
https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson
Replying to @jrhunt and @chimeracoder
Replying to @jrhunt
The events themselves. There are types at https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go - AFAIK there isn’t a lang independent representation tho?
Replying to @jrhunt, @chrismunns, @edjgeek and @ajaynairthinks
EventBridge sounds good to me.
Replying to @jrhunt, @chrismunns, @edjgeek and @ajaynairthinks
Yeah - there are example payloads & that would be even more helpful expressed in schema.
“serverless fuzzing as a serverless service”
Replying to @louis_bernabe
RN I’m using it to unmarshall CloudTrail events.
Good time to reread Orwell?
Asking for a friend.
Replying to @seclectech
Thx. Added to queue. I’m going to give “Politics and the English Language” a revisit.
Exposing myself to main stream news is definitely unhealthy. Need to increase the isolation there.
Replying to @seclectech
🤦♂️ The Kindle version is more expensive than even the Audiobook. I know there’s a convenience premium, but still. 🤯
Read the room, Amber. https://twitter.com/Entrepreneur/status/610847280258777089
Phonebooks in the time of covid
- Century Link
(Yes, a printed one in the mail.)
Replying to @_abhayshah and @seclectech
Public domain?
Replying to @joshroppo
😂 Velociraptors handy at removing annoyingly dirty hands as well.
Replying to @ben11kehoe, @brianleroux and @ryan_sb
Agree - at least not initially which makes infra adoption easier and architectural changes less likely in the long term.
RT @kstewart: Inquiring minds want to know what I’m doing next (👋🏿 @lethain @jhscott ) and I’ll tell ya... next week.
In the meantime, I’…
Replying to @edyesed
Replying to @louis_bernabe
I like the tool. However, I prefer that the types are derived from a canonical schema definition rather that an illustrative example. Would like to use something like https://github.com/atombender/go-jsonschema in that case.
No yeast required for crock pot Louisiana-style baby back ribs.
Replying to @edyesed
I haven’t. Do you have a recipe?
Replying to @edyesed
Manly FTW
https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s
AirTime, it’s just sitting there. https://twitter.com/Ballislife/status/1244821540086190080
Replying to @killerswan
Replying to @killerswan
Georgetown Ewing was spectacular. Knicks should have put a better team around him.