Dave O'Connor

la la la periodic reminder that i don't post here and you should check my profile.

You're still here?

Scientific data point: I've been noticeably happier for the last year or so not looking at this here website, and now that I've looked at it for half an hour I'm noticeably more anxious and angry about stuff. So anyway yeah, cool, fuck this website, bye again.

6 Reasons You don't need an SRE Team log.andvari.net/6reasons.html

this website is now essentially email-me-when-alex-hidalgo-tweets-as-a-service

treat the platform as a product, not as an internal outsourcing team. apply product management principles, even if its an internal thing

*tap* *tap* is this still on?

Can verify that I specifically remember one time at G where Liz was so technical that it caused a series of small earthquakes.

Airbnb definitely smells of murder but I've seen worse places to get murdered.

Apropos of previous tweet, it's a balmy first day as VP of Engineering @twilio - maybe more details later after Delicious Information Firehose.

Officially an unemployed bum for a while, AMA.

If anyone was considering missing me, this should fix that (Last day at Elastic. What a team, what a place. Come back in August or so for next update. Gonna go ride my bike for a bit).

WHAT YEAR IS THIS

Get out of my industry.

I managed the SRE team for Google reader when it was decided it would die and during its turndown, and my best understanding is that it had basically nothing to do with popularity of RSS.

@ahidalgosre I accidentally ran a unit test against prod instead of staging and broke Gmail for around half of users. Then they put me in charge of databases, lol.

Today, in the continuing chronicles of "computer smart implies all other kinds of smart, doesn't it?"

Found this guy on the way through rural Slovenia before he mysteriously burned down a few months later @neilhimself

Decent sized room I spose.