Great code can’t save a poorly designed system.
Unclear requirements and hidden complexity compound until production breaks.
Jem Young (@jemyoung.com) Engineering Leader at Netflix, teaches how to design backend systems that scale by design!
👉 frontendmasters.com/courses/back...
“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.
“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
Ok, I've had whiskey and my flight is delayed, so...
time for some unadvised unadulterated software eng and management advice (thread)
🎵 California...knows how to party 🎵
5 power rangers facing forward
15 years ago if you asked me to describe what aliens look like, they'd look exactly like the new power rangers
Cozy working vibes
A ramen vending machine
Tonight's dinner is sponsored by...
💼 Hiring Update👩💼
One of my amazing engineers is transitioning to being an Engineering Manager!
This leaves an opening for a Senior Backend Java Engineer on my team. The role isn't open quite yet, but I want to get the ball rolling. Descriptions below, please drop your LinkedIn links 🙌
RAMEN
vibes
Yuuuuup
Absolutely. Mind sending me an email? jem@netflix.com
one of my kids is about to transition to Kindergarten so I put together a list of private school costs in Oakland
average cost: $34k for Kindergarten
What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.
If you politicize natural disasters you are a bad person.
Child on snowy ground with sled on top of them
Sledding went well
Headline: The minimum qualifying income for a home in the Bay Area is now $320,000
how do people live here?
My inbox right now -
"Hey! You bought something from us within the past 15 years so here's an email about our black friday sale!1!"
“You’re in a bubble” is a notion I wholeheartedly reject. I live in a major metropolitan city. My neighbors don’t look like me, or each other. 6 languages are spoken on my block. My friends are multi-ethnic/gender/cultural.
Regressives live in a bubble, & they want to preserve it no matter the cost
Thanks for the shoutout Kat!
Selfie of Jem Young with a "I voted" sticker
Don't forget to make your voice count and VOTE! 🇺🇸
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers.
But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out.
The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.
Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
@chrisdhanaraj.bsky.social Let's talk smack about her tomorrow in our 1:1
An image of the new Nintendo alarm clock. The screen says "I know where you live and I swear to god I will send the whole fking Koopa Kingdom to your house if you don't get up."
ok ok, I'm up
Me too it's great!
Your favorite’s favorite is back out here keynoting again! This time in Round Rock, TX!
Hope to see you in a few weeks at THAT conference ❤️🙌🏾🎤
I’ll be talking about how to leverage your transferable skills to build the career of your dreams 🔥
The absolute joy of flying high
What is the point of Apple's touch ID if I have to input my password every other time? 🤦
since bluesky is so much smaller…anyone hiring a junior/entry-level engineer in NYC?
i have about 1.5 years of experience as a SWE, but 9+ years of experience in other roles varying from social media to support engineer :)
Not enough time in the day!