Matt Kuritz

Staff Engineer and Tech Lead @thefarmersdog. Organizer @devopsdaysnyc. Learner @LFISoftware. Bluesky: @kuritz.dev

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

Here's the deck from my talk at @DevOpsDaysPHL

https://t.co/b5JD7r2VeF

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

@Kazanjy dogs pooping isn't an inconvenience, it's part of having a dog

whether or not you think it 'makes sense', it sure didn't hinder us in any way, which makes your position these activities are "unacceptable" confounding, if nothing else

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

lol we built farmers dog with dogs running around the office at all times. i stepped away to clean up so many accidents, and none of the dogs were mine.

[Peter Kazanjy @Kazanjy]

If you want to understand why your 22-28 year old staff have wildly confused understanding of professional norms - there's currently a (mildly satirical) LinkedIn post by a WFH SDR talking about how he spends a bunch of time throughout his "average day" changing diapers of his (super cute) 2 month old and reading books to and playing with his (super cute) 2 year old while calling and booking meetings.

The post has like 500 likes and 100+ comments with people celebrating this.

Again: LinkedIn (and Instagram and Tiktok) is actively installing brainworms in your staff. You have to counter it.

I love kids as much as the next person - but being a hybrid childcare provider and sales person is unacceptable.

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

@Kazanjy to be really clear...

1) dogs are never an inconvenience
2) dogs are in no way 'necessary' to produce software (or run a biz of any kind)

dogs, kids, or whatever, people can be productive and perform their role while taking time for 'non-work' tasks during the day.

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

@Kazanjy i'm a software engineer 🤷‍♂️

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

💯

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Ah! You should pay other companies to do it, always, to the extent that they can.

But every company needs a (thin?) layer of customization between their PaaS and their applications. Glue code, pipelines, component configs. That you will always have to build yourself.

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

Let’s make this a thing! :)

I actually just did it at @DevOpsDaysPHL

Who’s next?

[Sasha Czarkowski 🇺🇦 @DivineOps]

“No one tells the story of the incident that didn’t happen.”

-- @allspaw

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

The first Platform Engineering NY meetup is being planned for June!

Have a talk for the community?

Reach out to myself, @sudomateo, @clesleycode, or @sfurino

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

Git is far from ergonomic, but I find it interesting this resonates with so many. Why does this happen? What is the friction to actually learning how it works?

[François Chollet @fchollet]

You never really learn git, you just get used to it.

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

Truth, unfortunately. Also doesn’t matter if you work in tech.

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Feels like if you’re Jewish and work in tech, Miami is the best city to be in the US right now

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

Probably a good time to shout out that we're hiring

Senior Engineering Manager
Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Director of Product Management
Group Product Manager, Health Platform
Senior Product Manager, Trial & Subscriber Experience

https://t.co/bP721PHroo

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

This was a ton of fun! Got to share a bit how thinking about engineering in terms of platform and product at TFD, among a few other things :)

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

@thdxr We’ve done it twice already at TFD. Has worked out pretty well. And the first thing was beanstalk 😱

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

The perks of being a dog person 🧡

[The Farmer's Dog @thefarmersdog]

Halloween is for the dogs.

[Michelle Bakels @MichelleBakels]

I got 3-4 fresh React dramas on my feed right now.

Here’s what I suggest we do about it: Shrooms

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

The difference with hooks and actions is they’re purely convenience. Best to avoid unless your really confident you can establish enforce a correct, strict standard for usage.

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

Server actions is the frontend version of sequelize hooks. A lot of people are going to find themselves in a world of hurt in a few years.

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

Theres a lot of flexible software that lets you hurt yourself. Git, jenkins, k8s are some things that come to mind for me, and they get there share of flack (especially k8s).

[Matt Kuritz @_kuritz]

@AdamRackis @thdxr @t3dotgg Disagree. This could definitely lead to fatal mistakes for startups that take the wrong shortcuts in search of pmf or to cope with early stage growth. The team improves over time with success/funds, but its often a race against the problems from the original naive/shit team.