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⚠️ I am the one who debugs! Sharing lessons, RCAs, and deep dives into production incidents—because every outage has a story. Say my name. #BreakingProd #RCAs

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“Netflix’s biggest competitor is sleep.”
Funny line, until you realize every swipe, reel, and notification is sharpening the same knife.

We’ve turned phones into REM-cycle pickpockets. Short-form video, doom-scroll feeds, midnight Slack pings each one steals a minute of recovery and sells it back as “engagement.” Health metrics don’t show up on the dashboard, burnout does.

The dev/SRE world has its own sleep tax: false alarms at 3 a.m., adrenaline spike, back to bed wide eyed. Rinse, repeat.

That’s why https://t.co/lihJUH4sX0 exists - so engineers only wake up when servers are truly on fire. No more REM raids for phantom CPU spikes.

Real KPI for 2025? Hours of uninterrupted sleep per engineer.
Protect that, and everything else scales.

#sre #sleep

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@nnennahacks @ghumare64 If you remember the commands, nothing like it. However, even then, multi-step processes become a bit cumbersome.

[Deepti Chopra @deeptivchopra]

Excited to launch Browserable: an open-source and self-hostable browser automation library designed to let agents execute web tasks, track status and fetch results.

GitHub: https://t.co/c0AsCj5w1U

Watch Browserable search Amazon for a yoga mat atleast 6mm thick, non-slip, eco-friendly, and under $50.

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🧵 The $440 Million Software Bug: How Knight Capital Lost Everything in Just 30 Minutes

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🧵 The $440 Million Software Bug: How Knight Capital Lost Everything in Just 30 Minutes

1/ On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group, a leading U.S. market maker responsible for about 10% of daily stock trades, suffered a catastrophic loss—$440 million vanished in under an hour.

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🔗 Has your organization addressed these hidden risks? Let's discuss how to prevent your own $440 million mistake.

#Tech #SoftwareEngineering

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🧵 The $440 Million Software Bug: How Knight Capital Lost Everything in Just 30 Minutes

1/ On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group, a leading U.S. market maker responsible for about 10% of daily stock trades, suffered a catastrophic loss—$440 million vanished in under an hour.

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10/ This event underscores why engineering and organizational discipline isn't just good practice—it’s critical risk management.

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7/ Crucial technical lessons for tech teams:
✅ Automate deployment verification across all servers.
✅ Completely remove or sandbox test code in production.
✅ Implement real-time anomaly detection and robust monitoring.

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3/ That single server mistakenly reactivated "Power Peg," a dormant internal test algorithm designed for simulations. Suddenly, it began aggressively trading real stocks at a rapid pace—thousands of erroneous trades per second.

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2/ The cause? A single flawed software deployment. Knight Capital was rolling out new software updates across eight servers. Seven servers updated correctly; one did not.

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“Vibe Coding: Ship on ‘Vibes,’ Pay the Tech‑Debt Later?” Ever built an app by copy‑pasting AI suggestions without really reading the code? 🎯Congrats—you’ve tried vibe coding. Let’s talk about why it’s exploding and why it can blow up in your face. (Thread 📷)

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“Vibe Coding: Ship on ‘Vibes,’ Pay the Tech‑Debt Later?”

Ever built an app by copy‑pasting AI suggestions without really reading the code? 🎯
Congrats—you’ve tried vibe coding. Let’s talk about why it’s exploding and why it can blow up in your face. (Thread 🧵)

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Have you shipped something mostly written by AI?
Reply with your wins and horror stories. Let’s learn together.
Like/repost if this thread hit home! 🔁❤️

#vibecoding #AI #LLMs #DevTools #Copilot #NoCode #SoftwareEngineering

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��Vibe Coding: Ship on ‘Vibes,’ Pay the Tech‑Debt Later?”

Ever built an app by copy‑pasting AI suggestions without really reading the code? 🎯
Congrats—you’ve tried vibe coding. Let’s talk about why it’s exploding and why it can blow up in your face. (Thread 🧵)

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Think of vibe coding like instant ramen. 🍜
Great for a quick meal, terrible as your entire diet.
Use it wisely, supplement with real ingredients, and you’ll be fine.