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Boutique cloud consultancy helping you get the most out of AWS, GCP, and other cloud platforms. @ericthewolak@hachyderm.io

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The argument that "we need to use microservices to get hard boundaries between components," is really "we are so undisciplined that we need to add considerable complexity to protect ourselves from ourselves." →
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i think it was the google SRE book where i first heard this rule of thumb -- you can plan to 10x your current state /at best! if you're lucky!/ -- but anything past that that is foolish, pointless conjecture that will bear no resemblance to reality.
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Yishan
@yishan14 Jul 2022
What we did was fail to contain a pandemic when we could have closed borders, done a short, sharp lockdown to isolate and ride out existing infections, vaccinate everyone before variants arose, and then adopt a mask mandate to keep r0 of remaining infections under 1.
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Yishan
@yishan14 Jul 2022
In total, you're looking at about 10-15% of your team out sick or compromised. Covid seems to cause brain inflammation, people who are infected (or long-covid) often make errors in their work that they don't even detect.
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Yishan
@yishan14 Jul 2022
This means that nearly 5% of the working population is compromised at any one time. With variants evading both vaccines and prior immunity, and no mitigation methods in place, people will continue getting reinfected over and over, so no herd immunity will be reached.
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AOC is the only leader I've heard articulate any sort of plan. I don't agree with her on everything, but at least she has specific ideas and is willing to try to implement them.
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I have never in my adult life felt so detached from my party. Biden seems to have no clue what is going on. Every elected leader seems to have one play and one play only - send contextless emails and texts asking for money. WHAT IS THE PLAN?
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Every time I think about the Democratic party, I feel angry. We are a country in suffering. A majority of us want change, and the Dems seem absolutely unable to capitalize on that. The most enraging thing - I don't even think they're trying.
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Can we acknowledge how ridiculous it is that startups and even individuals can bankrupt themselves... ... with an AWS bill? I cannot fathom why Amazon does not do anything meaningful to allow setting e.g. limits on accounts. Why do we need to hear stories like this on repeat?
8.31am. I got a call. We ran up a $65,345 AWS bill without realising. I remember the day vividly. I got woken up by my phone ringing. 'Hello?' It was someone from Amazon. Our card on account had been declined. I knew there was money in the bank, so I said I'd check. I asked for clarification on the amount. '$65,345', they said. My heart sank. Stomach turned. I felt a wave of panic flush over my entire body. I didn't know what to do, so I said let me look into it, and hung up. First I called my Co-Founders, told them to sit down, and let them know the situation. Next, I called our head of engineering at the time, and tried to figure what the hell had happened.

ALT 8.31am. I got a call. We ran up a $65,345 AWS bill without realising. I remember the day vividly. I got woken up by my phone ringing. 'Hello?' It was someone from Amazon. Our card on account had been declined. I knew there was money in the bank, so I said I'd check. I asked for clarification on the amount. '$65,345', they said. My heart sank. Stomach turned. I felt a wave of panic flush over my entire body. I didn't know what to do, so I said let me look into it, and hung up. First I called my Co-Founders, told them to sit down, and let them know the situation. Next, I called our head of engineering at the time, and tried to figure what the hell had happened.

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Working at different types of companies - e.g. "traditional" companies, big tech, startups, agencies, finance etc - you realize this: Different software engineering approaches work better/worse for different companies. There's no one silver bullet across the industry.
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This is spot on and applies to individual contributors too. If you are bringing a very senior engineer who only worked at big shops, they will get confused why they can’t hand off as much as they used to.
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz31 Mar 2022
Replying to @GergelyOrosz
A major risk at small startups is the culture clash of bringing a manager in who has only worked at the big places from their first job. There are exceptions, but eg someone with 10 years of Microsoft & Google combined often has trouble when hired to lead at a scrappy scaleup.
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Leaders with highly scheduled, rigid calendars (“sorry, can’t help now, my next opening is 2 weeks out”) make it hard to operate well in a fast-paced environment because their schedule isn’t nimble enough. They are in essence dealing this week with the priorities of 2 weeks ago.
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Hey there  👋 Just published a new blog about saving on AWS Lambda Amazon CloudWatch costs with this one "simple" trick 🪄 dev.to/aws-builders/saving-o… Happy reading!

Saving on AWS Lambda Amazon CloudWatch Logs costs

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There are many people in leadership positions at tech companies that don’t understand: Codebases without the people that wrote the code are just a liability, not an asset.
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Nayut@NS5253712 Feb 2022
1/ Understanding AWS - A perspective from a manager who has $AMZN as one of the largest positions in the portfolio for over 7 years. In the thread, I will also discuss $MSFT's Azure, $GOOG's GCP. Let's dive in.
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Louie Bacaj
@LBacaj8 Feb 2022
I managed and grew many Engineers into leaders in Startups and Big Tech. Tech Leads, Team Lead, Staff+ "Architects," Managers of Managers, etc. I've also reported up to EVPs, CTOs, and CEOs. Eleven hard truths about engineering leadership 👇
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a cool thing about society is that it’s basically a giant machine that takes technical problems and *turns* them into social problems
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The biggest challenge the software engineering industry has today is not related to engineering. It's related to teaching. How can we train (very) junior engineers to get to a level where they are autonomous enough, in a reasonable timeframe? Can we do this in a remote setting?
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1000% agreed. Either consult on a single *very specific* problem (and do lots of engagements on it) or go be an FTE. A consultant who is a generalist is the worst of all worlds. xitter.cf/rumdood/status/1399479…
RumDood 🍹@rumdood31 May 2021
Replying to @mikejulian
Having switched to being a consultant engineer for the last 18 mos, I've concluded it would have been smarter to either switch to FTE engineer or SME consultant.
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Lots of people outside of the tech industry follow me now, so figured I'd let you in an open secret that may not be public knowledge. Inside of serious developer circles nobody takes blockchain seriously. We think it's a solution in search of a problem. And a poor one at that.
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