🔌 your 👓 into ƛ is 😎
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/getting-started-with-using-your-favorite-operational-tools-on-aws-lambda-extensions-are-now-generally-available/
Q: What time is it? A:
Replying to @samkroon and @pluralsight
Congrats @samkroon & the ACG team! 🎉
Flaky should only apply to phyllo dough.
“Finally, time after time I see integration-test logs show failures and some dev says ‘oh yeah, those particular tests are flaky, they just fail sometimes.’”
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/05/15/Testing-in-2021
Replying to @mpchlets
RT @mpchlets: @mweagle Delete your flaky tests first!!!
If you don’t trust them, they are not valuable and only slowing you down
Replying to @mpchlets
I think your advice is good. Balance growing the garden with pruning the branches.
Replying to @mpchlets
Too true.
Pre-recommended 👇 https://twitter.com/samnewman/status/1400125909806485507
Replying to @VladAIonescu
Related: “While that is sautéing…”
“What was keeping the vast majority of workers from using all of their potential? And what was empowering the minority who reported that they were able to do so?” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhNdz5
“I’ve found that deployment tooling tends to support code changes better than config change: there’s just more engineering effort put into making code changes safer.”
Why do config changes keep coming up in major incidents? – Surfing Complexity https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/05/29/why-do-config-changes-keep-coming-up-in-major-incidents/
Replying to @jhscott
Yep. Config cuts (and heals) both ways. My take is that it’s less important what we choose to call it than whether it needs to exist at all. Also reminds me of https://m.subbu.org/incidents-trends-from-the-trenches-e2f8497d52ed
Replying to @h3techdev
TIL there’s a Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
Replying to @jhscott and @sallamar
Definitely. Calling something “config” can reduce the perceived impact of the change and bypass the normal, if imperfect safeguards, used to move “code”. Either one is both a blessing a curse.
Replying to @jhscott and @sallamar
We have a lot hosts in my day job 😀
Replying to @jhscott, @sallamar and @norootcause
“I am a big believer in the philosophy that management is not a promotion, but a change of career.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://leaddev.com/hiring-onboarding-retention/how-hire-engineering-manager-within-or-without
Been seeing a lot of “complexity” mentioned in podcasts and articles. I have a hard time using a consistent definition across all these references.
What do you think of when you hear “too complex”?
Replying to @mpchlets
Yeah, I find myself waiting for that part as well. It tends to end at “it’s too complex” as both explanation and dismissal. And then I think about all the things that are unstated assumptions that are “too complex”
Is “Complexity Acclimatization” a thing?
Replying to @jhscott
Thx - I should read that again :)
Replying to @rts_rob
Cool - will read. Thx. I reflexively went to |V|=∞ because I often don’t know where my dependencies really end. That’s not super constructive though 🤔
Replying to @brianleroux
The lack of a Silver Bullet seems like a perfect NFT opportunity.
Solid EM guidance from @patkua 👇 https://overcast.fm/+aNfjPdCP4
Replying to @dpp and @richhickey
That’s one of my all time favorites. #goat
This ‘go’ logging situation clearly needs some standardization.
Replying to @benkershner
Yeah. Maybe meet them at a distance?
TIL “Crazy Train” is considered appropriate for a supermarket soundtrack.
Replying to @dougireton
The real one (although I don’t know if they played the intro).
Replying to @dpp
I still can’t get over that Led Zeppelin was used in a Cadillac commercial.
Replying to @dpp
Replying to @shidoshi and @brendangregg
The flogs will continue until observability improves.
RT @GuyBostonSports: 35 years ago today, the ‘86 Celtics won the NBA championship.
• 67-15 record • 15-3 in the playoffs • 40-1 at home (…
I will never understand giving up an uncontested layup for a three point attempt with a defender closing out.
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Camille Fournier | Jun, 2021 | Medium https://skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-senior-engineers-need-beyond-coding-8ed4a521b29f
“Final root cause” is a section header I didn’t see coming.
“One of the great and terrible things about XP, is that it operationalizes peer pressure.” (via @Pocket) https://www.simplermachines.com/the-mortifying-ordeal-of-pairing-all-day/
Replying to @jpaulreed
Some thoughts in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2000/december/house-of-com-is-com-dead
Replying to @jpaulreed
Just passing it along. For myself, I was extremely happy to never write IUnknown again.
“Running slow is WAY worse than failing fast.”
Fail-fast Is Failing... Fast! - ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3458812
Ballmer voice: Defense, Defense, Defense
RT @nicolefv: hey folks! can I ask a favor? if research & data has ever helped you will you read (& maybe share!) this thread🧵
there are a…
Replying to @ben11kehoe
Replying to @GisselleXie and @ben11kehoe
I still haven’t recovered from having seen it.
Is it the same person? Different people? Different pigs? How many types of cheeses?
I have questions I’d rather not have :)
TIFU. That’s it.
RT @vllry: Judging from the spike in random LinkedIn connections and recruiters asking me to devop an aws, I have to assume some more publi…
“No matter how self-documenting the code is, comments help a lot with understanding stuff. Whenever I go back to an old project, I find the comments far more useful to reorient myself than my code or my tests.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhFMpd
Another day, another use case for XSLT.
Philly collapse nearly complete.
Replying to @kstewart
Every time I think of writing something in Python:
👋 It’s the day after the summer solstice in NA and I’m hiring for my AWS Lambda team. Help us bring even more sunshine to the darkness that is server management! ☀️
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1562092/software-development-engineer?no_int_redir=1
💯 “Humans’ limited capacity for information processing in short-term memory…requires that designers avoid interfaces in which users must remember information from one display and then use that information on another display.” https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/ben/goldenrules.html
Replying to @fabsx00
Congrats! 🎉
Today marks my One Year of Day Ones. Thanks to everyone who provided guidance, support, and to my team:
Replying to @mweagle
HMU to talk about what Day One on our team looks like: https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1407021521155940352
RT @AboutDev: Lambda is hiring. Talk to @mweagle if you’re looking for an SDE/SDM perspective.
“Fewer incidents doesn’t mean things are better.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhFkkT
“Here’s the rub: a counterfactual cannot be a cause. By definition the counterfactual did not happen, therefore it cannot have caused anything.”
(via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhFkqP
“I have led fully co-located teams, fully distributed teams, and partially distributed teams. I have always said that the latter is the hardest to do well.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhFkq3
“I have found it useful to bear these in mind while I coach. I’ve passed them on in various forms to people who are learning how to be better leaders, and suggest that leaders pass them on too.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhFkRe
Replying to @mweagle
These are excellent guidelines @lunivore 👍
Me, learning about the incoming SEA heat wave
Replying to @geoff_baskwill and @MarcJBrooker
I have now…
https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle/status/1408255343537254401
Replying to @FarrahC32
Do not want. Stay cool.
1/3 moment of zen before the day’s heat dome fully descended.
Replying to @accuweather
Sure! About 8am today on this trail https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/lime-kiln
(1) yes (2) yes - I took it.
It is the year 2021, when I use four different applications to “manage” the mail/calendaring nexus.
Replying to @benkershner
k, but then someone else still has four applications…
Replying to @benkershner
Good talk about different types of coupling: runtime, design, and infrastructure. Also, shoutout to the Accelerate book 🤗
https://overcast.fm/+GdnWUp56A
Me: I really need to mulch, aerate, fertilize and check the water flow to support the flowers.
Flowers: this 3/4” crack between the driveway and a rock is where I can really thrive.
This change is safe https://twitter.com/MorningBrew/status/1409924767147245572
Replying to @mweagle
It’s only config changes
Same. I memorize how to look things up.
Like this: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/recognition-and-recall/ https://twitter.com/bryanl/status/1410027563754401801
Off by one https://twitter.com/MorningBrew/status/1409924767147245572
Replying to @nconnaughton
Well done CP3
Great to see the positive reactions to Infinidash.