Michael Gat

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[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@QuinnyPig Even at Amazon, the only place I've ever seen this used is by VPs (and some L8s) who use it to ensure their schedule is only managed by their own admin. Anybody else deals with the same schedule chaos as every other company I've ever worked for.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@alyssahhenry @anissagardizy8 @theinformation I did it for 2 and a half years. Hardest and in many ways the most rewarding job I ever had.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@mikejulian Tinder marked the end of me trying to meet anybody online.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@mikejulian In retrospect, my friend thinks it would have been better left as a hobby too.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@mikejulian And for a much longer-form treatment of the same issues, which we're seeing with Slack this week and every other online platform previously:

https://t.co/5awSM7fKaT

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@mikejulian I've shared this about a dozen times a day since I read it. It captures what's going on perfectly:

https://t.co/7nD4IdLrqb

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@QuinnyPig @SlackHQ Despite charging for their product, they've still fallen for this trap: https://t.co/7nD4IdLrqb

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@morganfrnchstgg @QuinnyPig Unless something has changed substantially at AWS, there's no way that deployment schedule would be allowed all at once.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@QuinnyPig @codyogden @SlackHQ So far only one of my very small groups has been updated, so I haven't felt the full impact of this, but it does not look good.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@SwiftOnSecurity @QuinnyPig @LastWeekinAWS Speaking as somebody who dealt with them as a (very large) customer....

They don't.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@QuinnyPig I went to two high schools, in two countries, with different native languages. I was stronger in English and did quite well, but that was only for the final two years, as I was previously in a school environment where I rarely spoke English. How do I account for that?

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@QuinnyPig And here's the latest "we don't need no stinking data!" right from the top. As one who worked at AWS for several years, I can count on zero fingers the number of improvements I was involved in that came about due to "serendipity."
https://t.co/yYSxMkymgy

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@mikejulian I wish all apps gave the same option as SMS messaging, where I could choose to receive notifications about communication from only a specified group of people.

My default is notifications off. People who need to reach me for an emergency tend to know how to.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@mipsytipsy And more generally, it's for anybody who has done anything interesting and impactful with observability tools, techniques and frameworks. We encourage participation by first time speakers and those from under-represented groups.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@sontek @mipsytipsy @ahidalgosre @timotheo Shameless plug: If somebody is looking to do such a talk, or knows somebody who could do such a talk, I'm looking for speakers for the SCaLE Observability Track. Doesn't have to be specifically open-source related. Contact me for details: https://t.co/VNLCMz7TcI

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@QuinnyPig @mikejulian @awscloud I had a few clients like that back in the day. There was a time when pretty much every production person in LA seemed to have done at least a brief stint in between other things at the mysterious entity always listed as "PEGI" on their resume. (Pl*yB*y Entertainment Group, Inc.)

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@JoeBlubaugh @QuinnyPig @awscloud Varied widely, which is why sometimes even the $100k a year people could justify a project. But they'd only be able to do that once. Ongoing "small improvements" (something Amazon rightly focuses on), are generally not cost-effective without significant scale.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@QuinnyPig @awscloud Some of the more interesting projects were for the smaller clients. If they were able to survive it was because they understood that efficiency was not what they brought to the table and focused on other things, often interesting things. But scale pays better.

[Michael Gat @michaelgat]

@QuinnyPig @awscloud I used to tell my smaller clients that at $10m a year, 10% gain may pay for the project the year you do it. At $1m spend, you may be able to justify a contractor to tweak things. At $100k spend, the savings you're likely to get from any project you can afford won't buy me lunch.