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Forrest Brazeal
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Forrest Brazeal
@forrestbrazeal
Purveyor of good tech things. prev. @google.
PARADOX INC is out from Ballantine Jan 27! Preorder: tinyurl.com/paradoxinc
- Facebook employees are now "Metamates". (?) Can't wait for: LinkedIn -> Inmates Amazon -> Primates Tinder -> Intimates Jira -> Underestimates Postmates -> Postmatemates
- I'll never forget asking a guy who maintained 40yo mainframes for an insurance co why he didn't just migrate the apps. His reply: the firm's actuarial code relies on specific bugs in the mainframe OS's floating-point handling. Run on any other system, it would produce chaos.
- Absolutely fascinating insight I just heard from a hiring manager: Adding junior engineers makes the senior engineers on his team *better*, because the constant "Why" questions force them to articulate and confront their own assumptions. Hire juniors for a stronger team!
- "I know we hired you remote somehow... But that was then, and this is now." New song: the RTO (Return-To-Office) Tango
00:00 - Dear intern: We've all screwed something up, So welcome to the club. "That Sinking Feeling (The #HugOps Song)"
00:00 - The recent "All the ways to run containers on AWS" threads have left me super confused so I made this flowchart to help. It's probably also wrong.
- Good morning. here's another Probably Wrong Flowchart, this time on AWS database services!
- This shouldn't be possible, period. There needs to be an easy, safe way for students to explore AWS without incurring unexpected megacharges.
