Colin Johnson

Owner and DevOps Engineer (AWS/Linux) at CloudAvail Technology Consulting. Weightlifter with a decent outside shot.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

If your intentions are good you can always say what you hope.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

@Moneymirweather @PopBase Jameis Winston is about to snatch her up.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

Absolutely nothing.

[Big Sam @LewisSAMilton_]

What can you do to stop a man from trying?

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

Pictured right in front of the Pampered Pup on Park and Central. That man is really representing the home town.

[Rev. Barack Obama Shaw 4 President 2028 @obamashawbarack]

Gubernatorial candidates include Barack Obama — but not the one you’re thinking of https://t.co/g2aJcTRKoe

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

This happened at VMWare folks in maybe 2008… folks were hiring their relatives and getting kickbacks. Folks were flow in from India and were legit sitting around reading books (SQL) learning how to do jobs they’d just been hired for.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

I’ve worked with 2 Fortune 500s as a lead infrastructure engineer on, essentially, day 1 with near 0 customers. What I’ve designed gets them through national scale/Series C or D and maybe later. Eventually everything gets replaced and the team size balloons (like 20x larger).

[signüll @signulll]

this may a really dumb question:

what exactly is uber working on that requires a ton of new code?

same thing with airbnb, lyft, etc.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

@dhh You guys were running a single rails app on k8s in 2023?

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

@mitchellh Someone pranked sfgate, right? That can't be real.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

@macbookshawdy F*cking get it.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

@FriscoSmoove In my industry you here this often: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". IBM has long ceased to be relevant... but the mindset of avoiding risk remains.

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

When things are feeling really bad I watch this video. I believe it is the most important video on the internet.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

In a room full of folks at AA there is some percentage of folks who are truly dedicated to improving themselves.

[Tullian Tchividjian @TullianT]

An alcoholic friend of Philip Yancey once said to him:

“When I'm late to church, people turn around and stare at me with frowns of disapproval. I get the clear message that I'm not as responsible as they are. When I'm late to AA, the meeting comes to a halt and everyone jumps up to hug and welcome me. They realize that my lateness may be a sign that I almost didn't make it. When I show up, it proves that my desperate need for them won out over my desperate need for alcohol."

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

I have an employee, Sarah, who has been my right hand for 6 years. She opens the shop, closes the shop, and treats the business like it's her own. Yesterday, she came into my office shaking, handing me a resignation letter. She said her mom was diagnosed with dementia and she needs to become a full-time caregiver because she can't afford a nurse. I tore up the letter. I told her, 'You are not quitting. You are on paid leave until you figure this out. Your job will be here, and your paycheck will hit your account every two weeks.' I’d rather take a hit to my profits than lose a loyal human being to a tragedy she didn't ask for.

Good people are hard to find, we have to protect them

[Paul Snively @JustDeezGuy]

I wish software had a zero defects standard. Among the first things I worked on in my career were debuggers, which obviously DO have such a standard.

We should ask ourselves some hard questions about why software defects are not only not 5-alarm fires by definition, but are broadly tolerated and excused.

[Mike Julian @mikejulian]

We’ve seen huuuundreds of companies over the years doing cost management work

By far the company who is doing it the best:

1) doesn’t have a single dedicated person in the role (and never has) despite 100+ eng team

2) has a cost structure 5x better than their competitors (remember: we’ve seen them too)

3) relies exclusively on spreadsheets and first-party tooling

FinOps vendors like to sell all this as being so complicated that you categorically need third-party software to even have a hope of being effective, but I’m not sure that’s true across the board

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

@0xlelouch_ I checked the SLA (https://t.co/VPOuAvC8nm) for durability and there isn't any mention of this which makes me wonder how real that number is.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

@GergelyOrosz What accounts for some products being industry leading (S3, EC2, RDS) and other products not being of similar quality.

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

This is from a core kubernetes contributor. I think it is important to acknowledge that even the core contributors get confused by these things.

[Tim Hockin (thockin.yaml) @thockin]

If *I* get confused by #Kubernetes kube-proxy iptables rules, then surely other people do, too. So I documented them in the form of a flowchart.

Any ideas how to make this more comprehensible are welcome.

https://t.co/44LMut48yd

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

@JustDeezGuy One of the reasons I'm starting to think that the software engineering is full of morons is that there is a cache in the database and a cache outside of the database. It's been twenty years and we can't manage the cache *in* the database?

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

The problem is that asking more Engineers to work on a project often creates performance issues as they add features, add code and propose major refactors.

[Melkey @MelkeyDev]

Did GutHub engineers just stop working on the platform? Everything feels SO SLOW. To the point where I thought I was having internet issues. But adding comments on reviews is taking forever. What's going on @github ?

[Colin Johnson @colinbjohnson]

@FriscoSmoove Venting is not really in the territory of being a problem solver so I can see why folks aren't interested.