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@nganpham @KellySutton Please contact me when you are there. I have multiple years of experience making things more complex and guaranteed growth in your engineering org!

@nganpham @KellySutton At some ARR, you can stream data to an external source via Kafka, and have a back ground job process the events, then write back to a column in your DB via an external API call. Make sure to use micro service architecture and grpc between components to have type safety!

You're using Rails 7. The year is 2023. What do you use?

@tomerlondon Happened to me once. Luckily it was at home. They had to tow the car to a Tesla center and it was reported to me that there was a loose cable and only need to reconnect. Don’t know how much of that was true. I would not own a Tesla that is out of 4 years warranty

Anyone had something like this happen w their Tesla? My neighbor had hers suddenly shuts down making me pretty nervous about recommending a Tesla to a family member now. businessinsider.com/tesla-orders-o…

@nganpham Only half?

One of the most impactful things an engineer I deeply respected said to me: “Ngan, half the time, I have no idea what the fuck I’m doing.” I think of this every time imposter syndrome creeps in.

@nganpham And spend the rest of your day with rubymine reindexing?

It might be just me…but it’s extremely satisfying to do a git pull on main and get a shit ton of changes. #monolithlife

@supreet321 @nateberkopec @GustoHQ @nganpham I can’t agree more with your assessment of confluent or any of atlassian products

@nateberkopec @GustoHQ @nganpham All my investigations / project kickoffs / tech specs / future project ideas live in Notion 🎅. It's been helpful because when people have questions, I just link the docs I wrote months ago. I used Slack Documentation™ at Gusto because Confluence sucks

My @GustoHQ senpai @nganpham inspired me to keep a journal of my daily work in Slack. It's interesting! I like being forced to write all my thoughts out for a (fictional) audience. Hopefully it will provide some historical value for me in the future. Anyone else journal at work?

@nganpham @nateberkopec Bang bang!

@nateberkopec That rubocop rule predates me and I don’t get why we enable it either 🙄

people who do this, explain yourselves. why do you hate truthiness? why do you hate `!!` ?

@KellySutton Tears also flake

Damnit. Tests* not tears

Today’s TikTok is on what makes tears flaky. tiktok.com/t/ZTRp2Kgne/

@KellySutton True, assuming companies don’t reduce their bands due to higher supplies from recent layoff

True or false: Now is a great time to switch companies if you believe equity markets will rebound. Thinking: equity packages are at a discount, but mostly for new grants.

@edawerd @jasoncwarner @GustoHQ I hope that not all of 2k+ people are software engineers!?

@jasoncwarner We have 2k+ people at @GustoHQ and we've been able to scale a Ruby/Rails monolith (2.5M+ Ruby LOC). github.com/Shopify/packwe… has been a big part of our success in modularizing/APIs within a monolith. Monolith builds at 10min. Still on the journey, but what you shared resonates.

@KellySutton @MattCWilde @danluu @GustoHQ cucumber files?

@MattCWilde @danluu @GustoHQ Now with more majesty™! twitter.com/edawerd/status…

What successful (say, $1B+) tech companies use an architecture that's basically a monolith (as opposed to a service-oriented architecture)? Some famous examples of this are Etsy ($20B) and Stackoverflow (acquired for $1.8B), but there are probably other examples?

@KellySutton 10's of K's requests bursty or spread out?

My team inherited an orphaned Kafka system at work that does 10's of K's of requests per day. Am I crazy for thinking HTTP might be a better fit here?

Walnut Creek Surf Soccer Club 07B Blue vs Ajax East Bay 07B Elite earlier today - 5/22. Barron Au-Yeung crossed assist & Aidan Cooper volley to the corner area GOAL!! This is the RTP #2 final match and we won 3-0! 😄 #NorCalGotM @NorCalPreSoccer @wcscsoccer

@KellySutton Remove the component - reduce by a factor of infinity!

It looks like the small team I'm working on will be reducing costs of an infra component by—checks notes—10,000x this week.

@KellySutton maybe ask the question: "How can we prevent paying people twice?"

I feel attacked

@KellySutton @zinssmeister @GustoHQ did, we don't do 5 anymore :)

@zinssmeister @GustoHQ Gusto does 5-year vesting schedules, so not quite :)

Time flies. 4 years at @GustoHQ today!

@kklimuk @kamilah @tomerlondon @GustoHQ When we are gonna add cleaning-as-a-service to employee benefits? 😜

@kamilah @tomerlondon @GustoHQ 👏

@KellySutton How little?

Unpopular opinion: Development and production environments should be a little bit different, since that encourages resiliency in configuration. You should still be able to reproduce production bugs locally when needed.

@xc To some people, a quiet Slack and emails could be the most productive time :D

@KellySutton Also we use spot instances across the board, optimal types (CPU vs Mem) which aren't mentioned here. The tests are still bad (slow and flakes), but on top of a tolerant infrastructure.

@KellySutton "Although we increased the parallelism by more than 3x, our CI bill has not increased by the same factor. Why?" Because we have 3 more number of agents per machines. :D

For every minute that our CI times improve, we see a correlation of engineers shipping 2% more Pull Requests per week 📈 A new blog post: kellysutton.com/2020/05/18/spe…