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Gene Kim

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Gene Kim

@RealGeneKim

WSJ bestselling author: Unicorn Project! DevOps researcher/enthusiast. Coauthor: Phoenix Project, Accelerate. Host of The Idealcast. Tripwire founder. Clojure.

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Joined January 2009

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Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Dec 6, 2019
Holy cow. The Unicorn Project is on the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists!!! #2 in Hardcover Business category! And astonishingly, it’s also #8 across all Non-Fiction E-Books!!! A DevOps book!! 🤯🤯🤯 🙏❤️🦄🌈 Paywall: wsj.com/articles/best-… #UnicornProject
Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Jul 19, 2024
I'm in awe of the scale of the Crowdstrike / Windows BSOD issue. Here are the most startling images I've seen morning. Let's start with this: at 10pm PT yesterday, famous @troyhunt notices that something odd is happening to Windows systems:
Troy Hunt
@troyhunt
Jul 19, 2024
Something super weird happening right now: just been called by several totally different media outlets in the last few minutes, all with Windows machines suddenly BSoD’ing (Blue Screen of Death). Anyone else seen this? Seems to be entering recovery mode:
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Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Apr 6, 2019
Mind blown. Quora: Answer to How many lines of code was Pong? by Victor Volkov Answer: zero. It was programmed entirely in hardware with discrete logic chips. 🤯🤯
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How many lines of code was Pong?
Victor Volkov's answer: > How many lines of code was Pong? Zero. There was no code. The game was built with discrete logic chips. (source: Original Schematic )
Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Jul 19, 2024
Replying to @RealGeneKim
12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United flights:
Colin McCarthy
@US_Stormwatch
Jul 19, 2024
12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United plane traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history forced a nationwide ground stop of the three airlines.
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Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Jul 19, 2024
Replying to @RealGeneKim
Times Square in NYC:
Everyone's Favourite Jim
@JimmerUK
Jul 19, 2024
Having a look at a Times Square live cam, and there are some big old BSOD there.
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Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Jul 19, 2024
Replying to @RealGeneKim
Funny post of someone volunteering to update gate agent's system to remove the DLL.
Russell Kaplan
@russelljkaplan
Jul 19, 2024
Trying to convince the United gate agent to let me reboot Windows in safe mode and delete “C-00000291*.sys”, to no avail
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Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Jul 19, 2024
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Not sure if this is true, but @robertgraham says that the skies over US have not been this clear of airplanes since the 9/11 ground stop.
Robert Graham
@robertgraham
Jul 19, 2024
The skies have not been this clear of airplanes since 9/11.
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Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Sep 9, 2024
This is such an amazing talk from Dr. Erik Meijer (@headinthebox, famous for his work on Visual Basic, C#, LINQ, Hack), on how LLMs upended his research, and are changing coding and what developers do. I've clipped some of my fave parts of his talk: - His team found that the
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Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Jul 19, 2024
Replying to @RealGeneKim
RyanAir using printed out manifests to board planes:
Edward Russell
@ByERussell
Jul 19, 2024
.@Ryanair checked everyone for my Billund-London flight against a print out of the manifest. Analog rules the day during an IT outage!
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Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Jul 19, 2024
Replying to @RealGeneKim
Home Depot self-checkout systems — anyone know how the standard checkout POS systems are doing?
Robert Graham
@robertgraham
Jul 19, 2024
Replying to @robertgraham
This picture was taken by me (you can see my huge forehead in the reflection). I put this in the public domain so anybody can use it for any reason (except to mock me for my huge head).
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Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Dec 19, 2019
🎉🎉🦄🦄 The Phoenix Project available for FREE for the next 24 hours, as a thank you to the DevOps community for making The Unicorn Project a WSJ bestselling book!! If you wanted your colleagues to read it, here’s your opportunity! Just share this URL: itrevolution.com/free-the-phoen…
IT Revolution
@ITRevBooks
Dec 19, 2019
1/ The Phoenix Project #ebook is *free* today (Dec 19) on @amazon & other bookseller sites. If there’s someone you think should read it, now’s your chance. Retweet + tag your friends, colleagues, bosses. Link: itrevolution.com/free-the-phoen… (A Thread) @RealGeneKim @kevinbehr @gspaff
Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Jul 5, 2018
An astonishing paper that may explain why it’s so difficult to patch. They monitored 400 libraries. In 116 days, they saw 282 breaking changes! Each day, there’s 6.1% chance of breaking chg, for each lib you use! @TopoPal @mtnygard @mik_kersten @ctxt arxiv.org/pdf/1801.05198…
Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Oct 25, 2019
Infosec friends: What is right action to help shut this down? My wife @notoriousMVK used an official @BofA_Help ATM at Washington Square Mall in Portland, OR. It printed this: When called, people using broken English, kept asking her for acct # and credit card #! Incredible!
Gene Kim
@RealGeneKim
Jan 10, 2023
10 years ago, The Phoenix Project was published — To celebrate, this book is free today! What an incredible journey it has been — with over 700K copies sold, I'm always blown away by the stories people tell me about how it's changed their orgs (and careers)! 🙏🙏
IT Revolution
@ITRevBooks
Jan 10, 2023
Today is the 10th anniversary of The Phoenix Project, and we’re celebrating by giving away the ebook for free! Available from Amazon and other booksellers (some restrictions apply). Read more about The Phoenix Project, DevOps, and IT Revolution here: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…
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