Joe Gross

When you wish you had as many nines as this taxi company.

@jaqx0r @mipsytipsy @lizthegrey @honeycombio We eventually got better at alerting on, "emergent threats" like, "down to your last DB replica."

@jaqx0r @mipsytipsy @lizthegrey @honeycombio Early on YouTube paged on just 2 things: View rate drop and upload rate drop. It caught 100% of the site issues.

"We should run our own datacenters!" -- Said no one, ever, who's run their own datacenters.

@mipsytipsy @mccv I saw a team save $50k/mo on AWS with 6 lines of code, but it took 9 months to do it because it distracted from, "shipping features."

@mipsytipsy @mccv To be fair to the engineers, if finance makes the process for buying a new thing terrible they'll avoid it and try to do it themselves.

@mipsytipsy @mccv There's almost zero incentive to "own" your AWS costs because finance doesn't understand any of it and engineers don't talk to them enough

@ywxwy @mipsytipsy "meetingeddon" was the fridge cleaning we all needed.

Pro tip @awscloud: Your status page shouldn't depend on the rest of your site.

SO many guys on BART carrying flowers. #winners

Kudos to @gitlab for being so open. You didn't see @Delta doing live updates last weekend.

@jessfraz Yahoo's bus will let on anyone with *any* badge.

As a privileged white male living in San Francisco I'm scared as fuck. I can't imagine how it feels for everyone else.

I love picking my own "security" questions.

If you claim your shitty script is one-time use the last line better be "rm $0"

Unless you've soldered the motherboard you're not a "full stack engineer"

Timing is everything.