John Davis Bennett

Cloud Infrastructure @netflix. Distributed systems, Go, Scala. Bag of mostly water. Tweets are my own.

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@norootcause C’mon, Lorin. We made a true crime series on her. She’s Jeffrey Dahmer.

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@norootcause I’m more softcore myself. All of the dirty bits of compilers and kernels get blurred. Cheesy sax solo playing in the background.

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Google Meet?

[Chipotle @ChipotleTweets]

Wait for it

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I’ll probably have to atone by debugging a DNS issue.

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As soon as these words left my mouth I knew I jinxed it. The Coding Gods had cursed me. Surely I can redeem myself. 😅

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OH: It's, like, one webhook. How hard can it be?

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Perhaps if I avoid time estimates. Haha, not if I try to timebox a PoC.

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@MissAmyTobey Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks make up for the flaws in Discovery and Picard.

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@poiThePoi @rakyll Many of our docs start as one-pagers that get expanded into 5-10 pages during exploration and often while executing. There’s certainly not an approval step. I can see how that could lead to frustration and stalls.

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@poiThePoi @rakyll Fascinating. Thank you for the details. Memos are an important part of Netflix engineering culture but not as structured as what you’ve described. I suspect that some of the problems we run into could be improved with a templated approach.

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@poiThePoi @rakyll What are Greendocs and Bluedocs? I haven’t run across these terms before.

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It may be easier to find initial backers in a large department because you have more potential supporters. In a small team, not so much.

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Spot on! And the the cost of trying to bring about change isn’t necessarily proportional to the size of the organization you’re trying to affect.

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ELB APIs outage in us-east-1 timed perfectly to the opening Jan. 6th hearings.

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@kentcdodds Let's cancel this meeting.

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@SeanTAllen @norootcause Expertise isn’t required but experts have a harder time empathizing.

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@quidryan Your move, Ollivanders?

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@this_hits_home You also look a little stiff from this angle.