Dave O'Connor

- I don't read or post here any more.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

la la la periodic reminder that i don't post here and you should check my profile.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

You're still here?

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

Scientific data point: I've been noticeably happier for the last year or so not looking at this here website, and now that I've looked at it for half an hour I'm noticeably more anxious and angry about stuff. So anyway yeah, cool, fuck this website, bye again.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

6 Reasons You don't need an SRE Team https://t.co/8slBnjsIaF

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

this website is now essentially email-me-when-alex-hidalgo-tweets-as-a-service

[Pablo Bermejo @peibolsang]

treat the platform as a product, not as an internal outsourcing team. apply product management principles, even if its an internal thing

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

*tap* *tap* is this still on?

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

Can verify that I specifically remember one time at G where Liz was so technical that it caused a series of small earthquakes.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

Apropos of previous tweet, it's a balmy first day as VP of Engineering @twilio - maybe more details later after Delicious Information Firehose.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

Officially an unemployed bum for a while, AMA.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

@ahidalgosre I accidentally ran a unit test against prod instead of staging and broke Gmail for around half of users. Then they put me in charge of databases, lol.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

Found this guy on the way through rural Slovenia before he mysteriously burned down a few months later @neilhimself

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

Decent sized room I spose.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

Hey so I answered an ad looking for a stand in bass player for a ukelele band a few weeks back for the craic and now we're playing in the Olympia in 2 weeks and maybe this is the new normal? Beats commuting.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

Went to an office and sat and got a bunch of work done and bought a lunch with money. Been a while.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

Also it's possible to express empathy with folks tasked with doing something you don't think is worth doing. I think the world would be on balance a better place without facebook, but that doesn't mean folks working a job need your snark.

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

And, if you're reading the book and the thought process and conclusions based on the problems described speak to you, a pragmatist, a realist, a curious tinkerer, then you're already an SRE. Leave the book aside, and take what you've learned with you on your journey. /t

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Hot take: The SRE book is a history book, not a manual. (1/)

[Dave O'Connor @gerrowadat]

The circumstances that gave rise to the collation of the SRE book may never be reproduced in our lifetimes. I'll always also maintain that it should be taken as a set of examples of what SREs did when faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges, and lived to tell the tale.