RT @yosh_se: Do you know what sucks with migrating to the Cloud? I'll have no use for my data center keys :/ #cloud #Migration #datacenter…
Mon Oct 01 18:25:05 +0000 2018RT @josephruscio: 5 years ago the majority of Silicon Valley VC's wouldn't fund you if you had even a partially distributed team. Soon it w…
Tue Oct 02 16:50:39 +0000 2018RT @DaveJosephsen: For those of you who are, like me, TRUELY afraid of public speaking I give you:
https://medium.com/@davejosephsen/a-20-step-plan-to-being-viscerally-horrified-of-public-speaking-and-giving-a-talk-anyway-63bb74b5422f
Tue Oct 02 18:23:35 +0000 2018RT @kellabyte: I barely use Twitter now that Tweetbot is crippled from Twitter’s API changes. No streaming, and no fav/rt activity view.
@…
Wed Oct 03 01:24:59 +0000 2018RT @Spacekatgal: Please RT if you are a man who has never been in a bar fight. https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1047159381064929280
Wed Oct 03 01:25:53 +0000 2018RT @toddakane: @RealGeneKim @mik_kersten So true in IT as well lately. Hiring is the single greatest restriction on growth. Market is flush…
Wed Oct 03 19:40:07 +0000 2018Replying to @iteration1, @copyconstruct and @joshcorman
But the 1st way of DevOps is about systems thinking and it takes a lot more groups in the system of successfully delivering a product than Dev, Sec, and Ops. First! (after Dev and Ops) does not seem like a compelling argument.
Thu Oct 04 01:59:43 +0000 2018Replying to @constantine_jn
Scripts run most of the Internet.
Thu Oct 04 03:55:24 +0000 2018Replying to @benj_fry and @constantine_jn
I don't know how many ISPs either of you have worked at but I have some bad news... Also, if in 2018 someone really has such an opinion about code written by "Ops", then I really feel genuinely bad for them and where they must work.
Thu Oct 04 06:01:47 +0000 2018Replying to @benj_fry and @constantine_jn
The plural of anecdote is not data, and creating a binary artifact is not "running the Internet". Something happens with all those LOC, and regardless of whether it should or should not be that way, scripts run the Internet.
Thu Oct 04 13:42:11 +0000 2018RT @DEVOPSINST: Advance your individual skills and career by engaging directly with local experts and practitioners in your community at #N…
Thu Oct 04 14:31:30 +0000 2018RT @bonehugsnirony: we drink coffee and do our tasks like we have so much time left but every day we’re a little bit closer to become cosmi…
Thu Oct 04 19:48:19 +0000 2018A number of people have suggested this position to me and while it's not where I want to be right now, I fully support the mission of @letsencypt so if it's where YOU want to be, APPLY! https://twitter.com/letsencrypt/status/1044692864163184640
Thu Oct 04 19:54:21 +0000 2018RT @sarahmei: Here's my answer to "What is your best advice for a junior software developer?" https://dev.to/sarahmei/comment/61fk https://t.co/n0A3hvlP…
Fri Oct 05 03:56:37 +0000 2018RT @AdamMGrant: Being unfiltered is not a sign of authenticity. It's a sign of low self-control.
Impulsive leadership is trusting your gut…
Fri Oct 05 19:44:49 +0000 2018RT @richburroughs: As of today I’m looking for new job opportunities. Downsizing strikes again. I’m interested in Product, DevOps/SRE roles…
Fri Oct 05 23:30:25 +0000 2018RT @pczarkowski: somebody hire this guy immediately! https://twitter.com/obfuscurity/status/1048302041322283008
Fri Oct 05 23:31:12 +0000 2018RT @benzobot: I also know some fantastic and talented folks looking for jobs as of today:
@sinthetix @richburroughs @obfuscurity @OliverFer…
Sat Oct 06 00:19:04 +0000 2018RT @kabbyr: And this is only the beginning. https://twitter.com/ChiefHealthExec/status/1049670926307131393
Tue Oct 09 19:35:35 +0000 2018RT @rrhoover: Distributed teams, while not yet the norm, is quickly becoming non-contrarian in tech
Wed Oct 10 15:51:48 +0000 2018RT @Redox: We're getting into the giving season early and are excited to announce Redox Gives! https://buff.ly/2RjtOaK https://t.co/vTvQg5…
Wed Oct 10 15:55:30 +0000 2018Catching the early (for me) train to #NewOpsDays, so excite!
Wed Oct 10 16:04:10 +0000 2018RT @juliaferraioli: To clarify: it's not that I don't like your swag! It's that there's so much waste involved in the practice. There's shi…
Wed Oct 10 17:37:25 +0000 2018SRE is one implementation of the Operations component of #DevOps principles.
Wed Oct 10 17:59:13 +0000 2018Dropping knowledge, Mr. @jpaulreed learning us on the "5 Dirty Words of Continuous Improvement" at #NewOpsDays. Amazing job.
Wed Oct 10 22:26:08 +0000 2018The Westrum Culture model as described by @jezhumble. Relevant to discussions at #NewOpsDays. cc/ @QuinnyPig @pgutheb @bernardgolden @madgreek65 . Includes link to source material.
Thu Oct 11 14:29:42 +0000 2018RT @pgutheb: The hallway track at #NewOpsDays was off the hook
Thu Oct 11 18:23:00 +0000 2018RT @kpotts98: .@denisehemke talks Data Discovery for everyone at Workday Rising #Wdayrising
Fri Oct 12 06:58:04 +0000 2018Replying to @doc_haliday, @RichJenkins28, @WendelSchwab, @mystcfolly, @surlybassey and @prisonculture
Consider poor people can't get a credit card, can't afford to travel, can't afford a cocktail, don't have bank accounts...
Sat Oct 13 01:34:33 +0000 2018Replying to @allspaw and @AdaptiveCLabs
And sometimes there is other work that is more important to the business than doing all the action items from the most recent incident. Recency bias can't be a prioritization scheme.
Sat Oct 13 01:56:15 +0000 2018RT @Nash076: If your people are working 100 hour weeks ...
1) You didn't hire enough people
2) You didn't properly estimate the amount of…
Tue Oct 16 04:22:14 +0000 2018RT @rogbennett: Our US Women's National Team just qualified for 2019 Women's World Cup. An achievement we will never again take for granted…
Tue Oct 16 19:29:57 +0000 2018Replying to @littleidea
The DevOps War
Tue Oct 16 19:30:46 +0000 2018RT @REdeployConf: We said we were working hard on the #REdeployConf 2018 videos and… we are happy… to announce: https://re-deploy.io/videos htt…
Wed Oct 17 17:21:32 +0000 2018"We should generally pick the smallest set of tech that covers our problem domain, and lets us get the job done." - @mcfunley http://boringtechnology.club/ #Preach
Thu Oct 18 00:27:43 +0000 2018RT @monkeybrainsnet: How do you send ten pings in one second to a host?
Know the answer? Email: jobs@monkeybrains.net and include your re…
Thu Oct 18 01:02:54 +0000 2018RT @johncutlefish: A
Load people up (stretch goals!) and wait till they crack. Push. Then reluctantly reduce load.
B
Sustainable flow. St…
Thu Oct 18 19:43:32 +0000 2018Love this:
"Seeking maximums rather than optimums." - @tottinge #TOC #Lean
Thu Oct 18 19:48:32 +0000 2018Replying to @benj_fry
My favorite is donating to an organization I believe in only to watch the entire donation burned up in an endless stream of mail in the form of newsletters, bulletins, and solicitations.
Thu Oct 18 20:49:02 +0000 2018RT @GirlsinTech: #TBT: Living legend Radia Perlman, a network engineer & software designer, is best known for the algorithm behind the Span…
Fri Oct 19 01:42:21 +0000 2018"There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker
As my agile coaches taught: "Maximize the work not done."
Fri Oct 19 05:41:55 +0000 2018When your digital transformation fails... #devflops
Fri Oct 19 17:49:50 +0000 2018One great antidote to the open-plan office? #distributedteams
Sat Oct 20 04:16:55 +0000 2018RT @peggymangot: Come join us @money2020 on Sunday! I will be on a panel with @KenDodelin to dig into AI, Voice & the Personalization of E…
Sat Oct 20 18:22:14 +0000 2018Chapter 23 on anti-patterns written by @BlakeBisset in the Seeking SRE book, was so well done, it was worth the price of admission alone 💯 cc/@otterbook
Sun Oct 21 04:19:00 +0000 2018RT @sdmouton: hi friends who are trans
you’re rad & i will try to make choices to help you exist as you choose. if you need a hug or someo…
Mon Oct 22 00:06:54 +0000 2018RT @esh: The @QuinnyPig fan club has raised over $2,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!
Fans of us-east-1 can buy a T-shirt, or…
Mon Oct 22 14:02:23 +0000 2018RT @SysAdvent: It is getting close to that time of year again! Come propose an article for SysAdvent 2018!
https://goo.gl/forms/1HtKjyQsKFxQzXvE3
Mon Oct 22 14:03:02 +0000 2018RT @russpoldrack: Finally got around to reading this paper by @blamlab which is simply brilliant - should be required reading for anyone do…
Tue Oct 23 05:08:10 +0000 2018RT @REdeployConf: "When you release ideas, they grow. But if what we're optimizing for is our performance review, that doesn't work. So I d…
Tue Oct 23 05:25:26 +0000 2018RT @nicolefv: Build the things that differentiate you, buy the things that dont.
Tue Oct 23 22:55:28 +0000 2018RT @brainscott: Low Performers are 3.9x more likely to use functional outsourcing @nicolefv @jezhumble #DOES18
Wed Oct 24 03:22:24 +0000 2018RT @Ben_Grinnell: “Velocity is a capacity planning tool not a productivity tool” @jezhumble & @nicolefv - obvious but still in the common…
Thu Oct 25 00:45:00 +0000 2018RT @cwebber: Really hoping to get more talk proposals for @sysadvent this year. https://goo.gl/forms/RuBFBIpl9pAykUzI2
Thu Oct 25 05:59:14 +0000 2018Getting psyched to present and attend @LISAConference next week in Nashville! If you're going to be there, let's grab ☕ or 🍔 or 🍻! #hallwaytrack
Thu Oct 25 16:53:02 +0000 2018Once more for those in the cheap seats and for those living under a rock: DEVOPS IS NOT A ROLE OR A JOB TITLE, IT'S A SOFTWARE DELIVERY CULTURE!
Thu Oct 25 16:59:12 +0000 2018RT @Claire_Advanced: “Nobody died if we get it wrong” goes completely out of the window when the businesses using your software are health…
Thu Oct 25 23:22:29 +0000 2018Replying to @benj_fry
Continuous Delivery by Humble and Farley disagree with you
Fri Oct 26 04:32:50 +0000 2018Replying to @jreslock
I think communication becomes more difficult when words don't matter.
Fri Oct 26 06:43:11 +0000 2018Replying to @benj_fry
I don't know what the troll comment is about but waiting 35 minutes for feedback on your change is longer than a cup of coffee. Asserting that anything less is dangerous is in conflict with that aspect, and we've deployed safely much faster than an hour thousands of times.
Fri Oct 26 17:21:05 +0000 2018Protip: if you won't identity the company you're recruiting for, you're going to miss out on a lot of SREs who believe in transparency as a core concept
Sat Oct 27 18:14:05 +0000 2018RT @brendangregg: Great #LISA18 keynote by @WomenInLinux Tameika Reed about past, present, and future of sysadmin
Mon Oct 29 15:08:43 +0000 2018Great advice from @toddpalino, even when digging out of a infrastructure hole, use SMART goals #LISA18
Mon Oct 29 20:23:01 +0000 2018Slides from my #LISA18 conference talk about Smells in Your Systems Engineering Organization https://www.slideshare.net/dmangot/familiar-smells-ive-detected-in-your-systems-engineering-organizationand-how-to-fix-them
Mon Oct 29 20:33:31 +0000 2018RT @jaqx0r: Familiar Smells in Your Eng Orgnization @davemangot Like code smells, but organizational smells. Dave's led devops and sysen…
Mon Oct 29 21:45:20 +0000 2018RT @msuriar: Familiar Smells I've Detected in your Systems Engineering Organisation and How to Fix Them by @davemangot
#LISA18
Mon Oct 29 21:46:48 +0000 2018RT @drkurta: What does your engineering org "smell" like? What's your pager load? @davemangot @LISAconference #LISA18 https://t.co/Kar7pcSF…
Mon Oct 29 21:48:05 +0000 2018Replying to @thelongshanx
Honestly, I said during the beginning of the talk it was going to be opinionated. The fact that people believe they can purchase innovation and lower MTTR from a vendor is not surprising. Change is hard, as is letting go of your favorite pet. I still embrace simplicity.
Tue Oct 30 04:27:38 +0000 2018RT @drkurta: Two key observations by @davemangot: 1) the road to hell is paved with short term solutions that never die; 2) avoid Stockholm…
Tue Oct 30 15:08:08 +0000 2018Replying to @davemangot
proprietary ASICs on top of proprietary software, with a proprietary interface and firmware run through a cache backed by a battery. The images at Facebook used to be served through this kind of setup, NFS, NetApp, etc. They built Haystack (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Beaver.pdf) (4/5)
Tue Oct 30 15:26:50 +0000 2018Replying to @davemangot
about load balancers being horizontally scalable, RAID arrays are not. They can fail and be replaced rapidly and repeatedly. Look at the Facebook Billon User LB talk (https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon15europe/program/presentation/shuff) or do a dig(1) on your AWS ELB. In contrast, your enterprise raid array is (3/5)
Tue Oct 30 15:26:50 +0000 2018Replying to @davemangot
well enough. Mea culpa.
I tried to take the perspective of the questioner, and fell into the trap of enterprise thinking in my explanation, whoops. I started answering talking about a proprietary vendor protocol, HSRP (http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#35). Instead, I should have talked (2/5)
Tue Oct 30 15:26:50 +0000 2018A thread: yesterday at my #LISA18 talk, a question was asked about the difference between a load balancer and a RAID array when it came to using boring technology (http://boringtechnology.club/). cc/@thelongshanx As the speaker I either was not clear enough, or did not answer (1/5)
Tue Oct 30 15:26:50 +0000 2018Replying to @davemangot
and you can read why, it was not from a lack of vendors willing to sell them fancy solutions. Choose simple components you control, whether for networking or storage, and enjoy your boring technology. Sorry for not being more clear on Monday. (5/5) cc/@lauralifts
Tue Oct 30 15:26:51 +0000 2018Can avoid a whole class of problems that could be black swans by canarying - @lauralifts sharing her knowledge at #LISA18
Tue Oct 30 20:11:43 +0000 2018The best documentation of a known limit is a monitoring alert - @lauralifts at #lisa18
Tue Oct 30 20:16:00 +0000 2018Fail fast #preach it @lauralifts! #lisa18
Tue Oct 30 20:18:31 +0000 2018Interesting to see @lauralifts advocating USE dashboards instead of 4 golden signals. #lisa18
Tue Oct 30 20:20:20 +0000 2018Defenses against the thundering herd by @lauralifts at #LISA18
Tue Oct 30 20:24:42 +0000 2018@lauralifts referencing BeyondCorp at #lisa18
Tue Oct 30 20:30:16 +0000 2018Amazing whirlwind tour of outages, black swan classification, and remediations at #lisa18 by @lauralifts!
Tue Oct 30 20:39:26 +0000 2018"Make your arguments visceral" - @thelongshanx on changing humans at #lisa18
Tue Oct 30 21:40:29 +0000 2018When changing humans "NEVER start with the details!". Great advice from @thelongshanx at #lisa18
Tue Oct 30 21:45:36 +0000 2018TIL the ADKAR model for change via @thelongshanx at #LISA18. Thanks!
Tue Oct 30 21:57:03 +0000 2018Shout out to Beyond Blame by @mindweather by @yesthattom at #lisa18!
Tue Oct 30 22:29:40 +0000 2018Replying to @DaveJosephsen
Couldn't happen to a nice guy
Wed Oct 31 18:45:29 +0000 2018Trying to get back in time for trick or treating but what a great #LISA18! Thanks to @codencombovers @lauralifts @paulcarletonjr @bonkoif @thelongshanx @msuriar @deletingthat @rikkiends @brendangregg for making it great!
Wed Oct 31 19:09:14 +0000 2018