Replying to @sallamar
Enjoy your break!
ICYMI @hillelogram https://twitter.com/AmazonScience/status/1443329956927447040
This has everything: nuclear reactors, clambakes, and challenges to causality. https://overcast.fm/+tF0DUbdmo
Replying to @joshroppo
Big Grinder Postmortem
TIL about a good @SlackHQ feature: https://slack.com/help/articles/1500012915082-Schedule-messages-to-send-later
Replying to @mweagle
Our team has “quiet time” blocks and this is an effective way to respect that time.
Replying to @kstewart and @SlackHQ
Same. Less-Instant Messaging is a good thing.
Replying to @mpchlets and @SlackHQ
Yep - I had been putting threads in @NotePlanApp and coming back to Slack them.
That was a lot less successful than I was hoping for.
RT @ben11kehoe: I use scheduled Slack messages all the time! It’s great when you might be looking at your phone for something at a time tha…
Scary neighbors
Podcast: “He can really score the basketball.”
Me: Imagines taking an X-Acto knife and ruining a perfectly good ball.
I found out there exists a “Cinnamon Bourbon Pecan Popcorn” and it’s exactly as good as that sounds.
Replying to @hillelogram and @southpolesteve
That’s cold
Me: “Hey a phone call…”
Phone:
Steven Wright had a joke about how he had a Map of the World in his bedroom when he was a kid.
The map scale was: 1 inch = 1inch
I think about this when the pre-production fidelity topic comes up.
“And while effective heretics change the world, ineffective ones … well, ineffective heretics get to feel warm for the rest of their “lives” in the organization in which they operate [1].” “That Burning Feeling When You’re Right” by Roy Rapoport https://link.medium.com/GdQaLUfRmkb
Replying to @goinggodotnet and @TitPetric
Maybe semgrep-go is also worth a look: “close-sql-query-rows: find places database/sql.Rows instance isn’t Close()d”
https://github.com/dgryski/semgrep-go
You still have time to make a donation! @826National is a great cause and the T-shirt is optional. https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1447372619083239424
Wanted: wireless connection with the reliability of a wire.
Judge Smails would have liked the new MBP.
Replying to @dpp
https://youtu.be/ZNlLunDLIW8
“Part of that is that integration often falls on underrepresented and marginalized groups. These individuals know that organizations are not an idealized Venn diagram of “aligned incentives” glued together by meritocracy.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhD63k
“The fundamental observation of systems thinking is that the links between events are often more subtle than they appear. We want to describe events causally…but few events occur in a vacuum.” https://lethain.com/systems-thinking/
“Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context.”
https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/
Replying to @ErinIshimoticha
Yep. I’ve also seen vehement verbal agreement between people who are using the same word in very different ways.
“In other words — and this is the hard part — if you want to be productive, you need to spend time doing things that feel ridiculously unproductive.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhDEp9
“Investing in incident analysis will empower teams to discover what they know, and almost as importantly, how they know what they know.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhDEp_
“You are dealing with a complex problem. I’ve learned this the hard way.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhDEwl
“You don’t need to wait for a leadership role to build leadership skills.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhDE6w
“One of the things we’ve learned analyzing internal Correction of Errors (COE) over the last few years is that configuration changes cause outages at about the same rate as code changes.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhDE11
I created a team #memes channel and guess what...
Replying to @norootcause
You probably already know this one and your story reminded me of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3140528
Replying to @kstewart
Fun team time cooking Moroccan food with Najlae. Tagine is excellent. Recommended 👍
https://abnb.me/kGIkS0mJzkb
Replying to @AboutDev
“Over the years, the process-people-technology framing is one I’ve come to lean on and coach startups through.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhDkY5
“Engineering teams are networks, you need to hire based on the shape of the network.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhDkJ4
“There are many things that cannot be measured and still must be managed. And there are many things that cannot be measured and managers must still make decisions about.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhDkJD
“In the time it takes to read this sentence, the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service will handle several billion requests.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhDkR8
“We learn that modularity affects the entire software lifecycle: it is not only a development and maintenance concern but also a deployment-time decision. The operator experience matters, just like user experience and developer experience.” https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9520758/
Replying to @mweagle
Code written << read << operated
👇 “One final lesson learned then is that although the Istio team was aware of Sam Newman’s microservice recommendations, they didn’t give appropriate weight to the guidance around operations.”
“Great leadership requires a fine mix of all kinds of skills to create the conditions for engagement, happiness and performance, and empathy tops the list of what leaders must get right.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhDguH
“SLOs can surrogate their way into problematic high modernism when their metric materialization replaces the collaborative conversation between stakeholders which they actually represent.”
Avoiding the ‘SLOs as Reliability Theater’ trap | USENIX https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/avoiding-slos-reliability-theater-trap
“Reliability is not a project to be completed: it is a program to be sustained and managed indefinitely.”
Gazing into the VOID | USENIX https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/gazing-void
The X extends all the way to J
https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#json
“We were producing spreadsheets and numbers from data somewhere; didn’t that mean we should be able to automate running a migration?”
ADMIRE: A Product-Driven Approach to Automating Migrations - Two Sigma https://www.twosigma.com/articles/admire-a-product-driven-approach-to-automating-migrations/
Is my phone a hot frypan, because I keep seeing it as a Spam Risk target.
“Blog posts about how people solve their problems are fun and interesting, but they must always be taken with a healthy dose of context.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://tailscale.com/blog/go-linker/
“This is where a latency increase transforms a latency problem into an availability problem.”
(via @Pocket) #longreads https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/using-load-shedding-to-avoid-overload/
Using a Lambda function’s response to power a custom CloudWatch widget seems pretty cool: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/add_custom_widget_dashboard_about.html
Replying to @undef_obj
Current PNW Winter Stage: why is the rain coming in through the ceiling?
Replying to @edyesed
Do not deploy.
Replying to @benkershner, @bestofamznblind and @dyanacek
The memegularity is manifest.