Dan Taylor

Technology Director @ True Group. All opinions expressed are 100% my own and do not reflect my employer's opinions. He / Him.

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

I'm 37 years old, a father of 4, a Service Reliability Engineer with many years of experience behind me. I'd like to point out that I have just missed my mouth whilst drinking coffee and poured more down my front than I got in my mouth. Don't let imposter syndrome get you down.

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

@jeresig @cassidoo This for sure

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

Survived a pulmonary embolism this last week, it was a bad one and given I’d been so ill before it didn’t dawn on me how unwell I was. Thanks to the NHS and a stay in hospital (with bed rest) I’m ever grateful for my tax money at work.

Now I’m home, recovering.

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

@davidfowl @Dave_DotNet For backend services it takes a matter of hours to upgrade and validate, for Blazor we've been bitten a few times by upgrades - we use wasm and we've just kept rescheduling the upgrades.

I'm pretty sure the upgrade path is better now, but the problem is once bitten, twice shy!

[Oscar Watson-Smith @oscargws]

Some thoughts on the discourse around @Railway team's outage. I was a mid-level SE at @datadoghq ANZ in 2023 when the company had a major, long lasting outage (actually started while I was mid demo). I was in a sales role, and what was most interesting to me was the response from customers after the incident was resolved.

A lot of small, smb and commercial customers were livid, demanding compensation, being a bit rude to staff etc. However, most the large enterprises and massively scaled orgs were annoyed, sure, but mainly just wanted to be spoken to throughout the process, and informed of how it happened, as they wanted to ensure it didn't happen to them as well.

I don't think expecting your provider to never have an outage is feasible, but expecting them to communicate well throughout is how you can differentiate between your options. FWIW $DDOG is up 3x since that outage.

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

Absolutely what I'm seeing.

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Every stage of the traditional SDLC is collapsing, except monitoring. And monitoring needs to evolve.

Observability becomes the feedback mechanism that drives the entire loop...the connective tissue of the whole system. 🙌

Read the rest from @boristane, https://t.co/V4sPWEZW9F

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

@vyrotek Yes, we've built a fair few services with it. Would summarise when it works well, its excellent. When it doesn't, you end up with an endpoint called /api/features123 because for no apparent reason in a single app /api/features won't work and you stick on the 123 just to test

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

This definitely a side of codex I enjoy, being able to ship even with a meeting filled diary as 'the robots' do my bidding.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Codex for empowering everyone to ship:

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

@philiph That triggers some nostalgia, I must have walked past that gate nearly every weekend growing up. It's still the same blue paint to.

[True Group @true_tech0]

💰@OaklandIntUK saves £4.4m with True
🌲CFOs discuss major sustainability issues
🌟#ChangeMaker campaign kicks off

Access the latest news from True and updates from across the energy & sustainability sector in: True News, September Edition.

Access here:
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[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

After two years of secrecy, and four months of gradually pulling aside the curtain, we are just 13 days from the release of BABYLON 5: THE ROAD HOME, our love letter to Babylon 5 fans and its cast of characters. Can't wait for this beast to escape into the world.

[neural oscillator of uncertain significance @mycoliza]

USB, which stands for "Universal Serial Bus", is peripheral interconnect standard known for being neither universal nor serial,

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

@CarlDPickering The rabid ADHD in my brain likes the idea, just not the effort. I applaud your efforts 👌

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

Desk tidied, new Monitor, Microphone and Headphones arriving later today.

I can promise you this is not how my desk has been for the last few months, I'm certain it will remain clear for at least one day. Mainly as I'm heading to the Office for a rare in person dat tomorrow.

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

We strive for this daily.

[Alexander Zeitler 💻🏭 @lxztlr]

💻 What's stopping you from coding like this?

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

Who isn't in bed, ITHedgeHog isn't in bed. I'm going to regret this tomorrow morning for sure.

[Niall Murphy @niallm]

If you're SRE or SRE-adjacent, it would be great to spend some time filling out https://t.co/Hjd085lP8u -- one of the few ways we can get cross-company readings on what's happening with the profession.

Thank you for your time in advance!

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

Just started strimming back the really over grown garden and 30 minutes later I'm reminded I have a desk job and am *rather* unfit.

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

My new @garden_io hoodie arrived just in time to celebrate the launch of OEMs new tool.

The Garden team have been supporting us on our march to going live.

[Dan Taylor @ITHedgeHog]

This one's a banger, don't read with coffee in the old mush

[John Nichol ✈ @JohnNicholRAF]

Friday RT comp! 🍻🥂🥳🥳
RT for chance to win a signed copy of EJECT! EJECT!......
delivered BEFORE publication on the 25th:
https://t.co/Hi1ItEjRDn