James

Spotify Site Reliability Engineer, Climber of Rocks

Climbing Shizz:

[James @RochesterinNYC]

If you ever want to see me ascending rocks in the most inefficient manner possible: https://t.co/srnKSXSyX9

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Let me be very clear: the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not represent who we are. What we are seeing is a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. This is not dissent, it's disorder. It borders on sedition, and it must end. Now.

[James @RochesterinNYC]

Candidate Reverend Raphael Warnock: https://t.co/1NEYPLHLir
Candidate Jon Ossoff: https://t.co/URZuOAsytk

Stacey Abrams' org Fair Fight (that helped to register 800K new voters in Georgia for this election): https://t.co/mdqmUqPJjs

DONATE.

[James @RochesterinNYC]

IT'S NOT OVER. Take that renewed hope, and channel it into time/donations for the Democratic senate candidates for Georgia!

Democratic wins for the 2 Georgia senate seats in the Jan runoff elections is the only way the Democrats can get majority voting power in the senate.

[Spotify Engineering @SpotifyEng]

Tech migrations are tedious, we get it.😣 And after the initial push, they fizzle out. At Spotify, we treat migrations like products. Learn more about our strategy to making them more efficient: https://t.co/lOWxbP4xvv

[Spotify Engineering @SpotifyEng]

Software migrations are the worst. Or are they? See how we make them less painful for everyone involved with https://t.co/dDUIWlNKbD.

https://t.co/IfBQBciXIa

[James @RochesterinNYC]

@bgrant0607 @brendandburns @kelseyhightower @Azure It's worth highlighting that the number of code contributions isn't always the sole indicator of level of contribution toward a project. There's been multiple talks at CNCF events/KubeCons discussing ways to contribute without code: https://t.co/LW810rxUC7 https://t.co/Zn9CKTSSla

[Melanie Bracewell @meladoodle]

seeing everyones spotify wrapped: wow im not all that interested
me posting my spotify wrapped: everyone will enjoy this from me, the protagonist of life

[James @RochesterinNYC]

@switchboard_op to spend a whole sprint migrating our services over to K8s". These include things like K8s workshops during our internal unconferences, holding talks or K8s office hours when we visit the other offices, and accepting embeds onto our team.

[James @RochesterinNYC]

@switchboard_op Glad you enjoyed it! We had conducted some internal surveys about migration to devs at some point and the answer usually seems to revolve around busy team backlogs. For some teams, it can be hard to find the time to move from Helios to Kubernetes here even if the devs on the team

[James @RochesterinNYC]

@switchboard_op are super interested in moving. We try to alleviate this via a combination of making the UX around getting onto the K8s offering as simple and easy as possible + also providing more "legitimate" K8s education or migration avenues than devs telling product or whomever "we're going

[jack @jack]

For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: “We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well...they can say whatever they want! 😉”

[Eliud Kipchoge - EGH🇰🇪 @EliudKipchoge]

HISTORY!

[Eliud Kipchoge - EGH🇰🇪 @EliudKipchoge]

Today we went to the Moon and came back to earth! I am at a loss for words for all the support I have received from all over the world.

Thank you to all who gave me the opportunity. Asante.

[James @RochesterinNYC]

being quoted in a @CloudNativeFdn case study on @Spotify is kind of dope! https://t.co/l30hUOSNhk

[James @RochesterinNYC]

mood = pretty much solely decided by the state of my tendon injuries from #climbing, RIP sanity.

[CNCF @CloudNativeFdn]

We’re SO excited to spend next week digging into @Spotify’s #CloudNative + #Kubernetes journey for our first-ever #EndUserSpotlight ✨ — make sure to tune in!

[CNCF @CloudNativeFdn]

[NEWS] #CNCF Announces Schedule for #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon San Diego 🎉 https://t.co/2PQMg0CnkK

[James @RochesterinNYC]

Life of a NE climber: pull up Mountain Project pages for all nearby crags, click GPS links to find the nearest towns, google "<insert town> weather", switch to Precipitation view, cry. Repeat hourly until Sat morning. Settle for closest crag. Fall off of and curse at wet rock.