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Tweets that have us twittering
distributed systems is an attempt to answer the question "is it possible for something to be broken and still work at the same time"21:11 PM - 22 Sep 2020
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My favourite metaphor for tech debt is dishes. you gotta do the dishes, not just the cooking.
If the dishes are done, then when the customer orders a new thing you can make it right away.00:07 AM - 23 Sep 2020
Maybe I need to write a blog post called "On Call For Managers". If you're asking engineers to be on call for their code -- and you should -- you owe in return:
- enough time to fix what's broken
- hands to do the work
- closely track how often they are interrupted/woken
- ..etc21:24 PM - 25 Sep 2020
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Alerting on SLOs: Glitch’s Mads Hartmann writes about the team’s progress in adopting SLOs, including the motivation behind implementation.
How to Construct a Reliability Model for your Organization: In this post, we’ll construct a basic reliability model and show you how to create one for your own organization.
Four Things I Wish I Knew as the New CTO of a Startup: Isabel Nyo writes about her experiences as CTO of a small startup and key lessons learned over the course of a year.
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