Shawn Seymour

Distributed Systems Engineer 👨‍💻 Software Architect 👾 Apache Kafka Evangelist 💛

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

@cramforce i just wrote about this exact same thing! https://t.co/lkCr16CPSO

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

@cap no cap

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

The future of software will not be defined by what agents can generate,
but by what humans can trust them to do.

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

@ZherkaOfficial @grok is this true?

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

Done ≠ merged PR. Done = in prod, observable, delivering value.

A sharper Definition of Done you can adopt this sprint: deploy, instrument, guardrails, feedback loop. 🚀

https://t.co/I17uardu7Z

#devops #sre #softwareengineering #continuousdelivery

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

@Dev_Huang1 @leojrr Me too! Let’s connect 👋

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

@marcelpociot Try @httpie desktop app! My favorite. Optional sync if you need it, beautiful UX. I use it daily!

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

@ryanvogel @v0 https://t.co/X5sgzkMG0Y

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

@daniel_dhawan @expo How does this compare to https://t.co/5Nkl6ui4Tk ?

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

New Year’s Eve: the ultimate cron job. 🎉

0 0 1 1 * https://t.co/bKPIaY0gRM

Here’s to a bug-free 2025!

#HappyNewYear2025

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

As you wrap up Christmas, ever wonder how Santa delivered all those toys to your kids (and everyone else)?

🎅 Santa’s Workshop was just exposed—read here: https://t.co/RZzqPnRNhS 🎄

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

🎅🔧 What if Santa’s Workshop ran like a Silicon Valley startup? Discover the hidden tech magic behind the North Pole… 🎄✨

https://t.co/RZzqPnRNhS

[Corey Quinn (in London this week) @QuinnyPig]

Microservices architectures are incredibly important. If you don't adopt them, you'll be left behind.

!⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱.

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

me: spends five minutes starting a new blog post...

me five minutes later: spends the rest of the day coding a brand new UI for the blog

[Vedika Jain @vedikaja_in]

That feeling when you buy a domain and think everything is possible

[Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei]

It all started with Ops... and now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Kudos to @acloudguru for the infographic 👍

[Bryan Liles @bryanl]

Being a senior engineer is not having the ability to solve hard problems, but rather the ability to eliminate hard problems for yourself and others.

[Anna McDonald 🤖🧮🔍🇺🇦 @[email protected] @jbfletch_]

People routinely think you have to adhere to min.isr in order to produce successfully. FALSE. You can set acks=1 and produce to a degraded isr below min.isr with no problem. You risk stability and, reliance but for some situations (people) it's enough.

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

Interested in learning how to automate Apache Kafka topics and ACLs through code? Learn how to manage them GitOps style in my latest blog post. #kafka #apachekafka #confluent #gitops #automation https://t.co/k0lnQVApHV

[Shawn Seymour @devshawn]

Automate and manage your Apache Kafka topics & ACLs with GitOps! #kafka #apachekafka https://t.co/qVVG6EFUsA