Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer

Director, Site Reliability Engineering at Intercontinental Exchange; formerly @ProtectWiseInc, @SendGrid. Cyclist. Opinions my own.
Now @tarrall.bsky.social

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

#DevOps was just step 1.

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

@XfinitySupport when your tech claims they came by to do the install and I wasn’t there… on a day I stayed home just for you, and you can’t get the install done… you lose me as a customer. AT&T is kicking your butt on the install/support side!

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

OH: he’s like the Murphy’s Law of tech support

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

Architect: *slaps roof of repo* this bad boy can fit so much spaghetti code in it

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

@ruthgracewong List as stolen on bikeindex<dot>org as well.

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

@GossiTheDog A certain kind of sun…

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

@bwest Admit it Brandon you’re just bitter you can’t beat Eddie Z’s new world record of 3 minutes 58 seconds to devrel a mile of
uh
Python libraries? Helm charts?

I got nothin’…

[Jake Williams @MalwareJake]

Beginning the response and learning the incident has not been properly scoped...

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

@dildog Crack Croc Vs Angel Dust Alligator.

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

@kelseyhightower I am getting more and more push notifications though. Vast majority are for tweets from people I do not follow.

Not sure if it’s a defect or he’s just getting desperate for eyeballs.

[Clay Dowling @ClayDowling]

I worked on a product that could ship hourly, and had to comply with European banking regulations about traceability. Your arguments about why you can't deploy on Friday are invalid. Listen to Charity.

[Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw]

Excellent nerd trap 😵

[Cory Muscara @corymuscara]

I meditated 15 hours a day for 6 months straight with one of the toughest Buddhist monks on the planet.

Here's what I learned:

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

That said, it HAS been fun looking at most recent posts from some of the lower-volume accounts -- those I'd never see based on The Algorithm and would rarely see even on "most recent" since they're not frequent posters.

I shoulda done more of this "manual follow" before.

2/2

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

Running through my follows trying to add as many to Mastodon as I can.

All the Infosec and SRE peeps are there, of course. But I'm gonna miss all the "secondary" stuff I follow -- friends from devrel, sales, PMO; random meme queens, local businesses.

1/2

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

@CloudKickOff Yup, "clickhole" started before the Internet for me too!

Used to start fiction novels in middle, found intro exposition boring esp in YA.

When short on fiction I read encyclopedias, textbooks: mom's nursing school, grandfather's chem, dad's engineering.

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

But what’s considered “excessive”? I rarely went over 500 pages/day; that’s not excessive right?

Right?

[Myk is going to Vibecamp @mykola]

56. TFW you read that "excessive childhood reading" is considered a form of dissociation.

[Robert Tarrall, Salty Reliability Engineer @tarrall]

@BennettTomlin @coloradotravis One word: gluten.

[Myk is going to Vibecamp @mykola]

61. TFW you find a job that pays you to identify problems that nobody's responsible for and fix them, thereby improving the way everything works for everybody while satisfying your need to optimize systems.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

So cryptocurrency is enriching the same group of billionaires and corporate elites as the traditional banking system.

And it mirrors the same unregulated banking system that caused the 2008 crash.

AND when it crashes, working people are the ones losing their life savings.