troubleshooting (verb) Systematically determining the cause of unwanted behavior in a system, fixing it, and publicly shaming whoever's to blame. "While troubleshooting our database reset problem, I realized somebody has no clue how to use a connection pool... Bob."
Give me the log files, a unix prompt, and complete silence 🕵
I just wrote a piece called "In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers". (partly paywalled)
When people talk about world-class engineering orgs, they usually have in mind orgs that are top-heavy with the most experienced and pedigured talent.
This gets it exactly backwards.
refactoring.fm/p/in-praise-...
For the last year or so I have been noodling on the idea of a Best Simple System for Now.
What happens when you write exactly the code you need, at the level of quality you need, but solving the problem _for now_ rather than a generalised or hypothetical version of it?
dannorth.net/best-simple-...
From Socrates to Shangri-La, or how generative 'AI' might make us stupider
#science 🧪 #neuroscience #technology
was asked a really interesting question in an interview yesterday: given a budget, which areas of security spending produce the greatest and worst (or negative) ROI?
my answer:
positive: SSO/OAuth, hardware keys
worst: DAST, DLP, honorable mention to poorly configured IDS’s
what’s your answer?
One of my favorite things in the world is when software architects come up to me and tell me how much they enjoyed my piece about how "software architect" is such a bullshit role at most companies.
I love you guys.
charity.wtf/2023/03/09/a...
There's this evergreen joke on software development that goes something like this:
"We're done with 90% of the project. Which means we only have the other 90% left to go."
It's funny because it's true. It's also why experienced engineers are in-demand: they are the "finishers."
AI tools: not now.
ok, uhhh i've got like 3 more hours in the sky club to kill. every like == 1 hot take about observability
Also sharing what is probably my favorite blog post of all time today (authored by @apenwarr.bsky.social) because it's something I constantly find myself referring back to and is a great read for anyone who builds systems for a living.
apenwarr.ca/log/20201227
ICYMI: RN the SDLC is slower and less reliable with #PlatformEngineering and/or #AI.
In this year’s #DORA.
Read my convo with @nathenharvey.bsky.social
thenewstack.io/dora-2024-ai...
I was thinking about @alexellis.bsky.social for this list
