Michael Gat

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Michael Gat

Michael Gat

@michaelgat

Here infrequently and I prune my history. Save anything you like offline. Also at: https://t.co/FHjP7aBfIw, @[email protected], https://t.co/AXCkSew8HA

Katılım Nisan 2010
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@QuinnyPig Even at Amazon, the only place I've ever seen this used is by VPs (and some L8s) who use it to ensure their schedule is only managed by their own admin. Anybody else deals with the same schedule chaos as every other company I've ever worked for.
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Alyssa Henry
Alyssa Henry@alyssahhenry·
@anissagardizy8 @theinformation The hardest part of my job at AWS was operations and the hardest part of that was capacity planning. Getting cap planning right/wrong, whether AWS or running your own DC, is the diff between lower cost or lower reliability.
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Anissa Gardizy
Anissa Gardizy@anissagardizy8·
Amazon Web Services launched a new service aimed at increasing access Nvidia’s hard-to-get H100 GPUs—a potentially threatening move for the flurry of GPU rental startups attempting to compete w/ AWS. (example No. 789 of how the cloud is not elastic) theinformation.com/briefings/aws-…
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@mikejulian Tinder marked the end of me trying to meet anybody online.
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Mike Julian
Mike Julian@mikejulian·
@michaelgat I was reading this when it popped up on HN the other day and thinking about all my friends are all "online dating worked for me, why doesn't it work for you? because they all used it before the Tinder-ificaton of online dating 😔
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@mikejulian In retrospect, my friend thinks it would have been better left as a hobby too.
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Mike Julian
Mike Julian@mikejulian·
@michaelgat The more I read the forums, the more I see opportunities to help the community and make a decent business in the process I keep having to remind myself I already have a job and don't need another one 😂
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Mike Julian
Mike Julian@mikejulian·
Those would all be way too cool for me It's clockmaking and repair
John-Daniel Trask@traskjd

@mikejulian You gotta tell us what this hobby is Mike! Some sort of extreme sport? Shark fighter? Titanic explorer?

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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@morganfrnchstgg @QuinnyPig Unless something has changed substantially at AWS, there's no way that deployment schedule would be allowed all at once.
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Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·
I am concerned that both us-east-1 and us-west-2 are experiencing network issues. This is something new; normally these are bound to single regions.
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@QuinnyPig @codyogden @SlackHQ So far only one of my very small groups has been updated, so I haven't felt the full impact of this, but it does not look good.
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Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·
@codyogden @SlackHQ It's actively painful to figure out which Slack has a notification for me, so I've taken to quitting Slack entirely until I need something from someone. My engagement has plummeted.
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Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·
One of the pleasant side effects of the @LastWeekinAWS newsletter lies in identifying companies I’d never want to work for.
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@QuinnyPig I went to two high schools, in two countries, with different native languages. I was stronger in English and did quite well, but that was only for the final two years, as I was previously in a school environment where I rarely spoke English. How do I account for that?
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Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·
Canonical's hiring process has always been laughable clownshoes from the outside. Maybe it works for them, but YIKES. I'd not encourage anyone to go through their process if they wanted my advice on career stuff...
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@QuinnyPig And here's the latest "we don't need no stinking data!" right from the top. As one who worked at AWS for several years, I can count on zero fingers the number of improvements I was involved in that came about due to "serendipity." seattletimes.com/business/amazo…
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Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·
This may be the least Amazonian thing ever. If someone tells their leadership "I don't have data to back it up, but--" they'd be interrupted at that point in the sentence and told to come back to finish that thought once they did have the data.
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@mikejulian I wish all apps gave the same option as SMS messaging, where I could choose to receive notifications about communication from only a specified group of people. My default is notifications off. People who need to reach me for an emergency tend to know how to.
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Mike Julian
Mike Julian@mikejulian·
At some point, as I was fussing with Slack and MacOS notifications, I somehow stopped Slack from ever showing a badge notification or indicating I have a message in any way. I couldn't figure out how to fix it, but after two months with this, I kinda don't want to. 😄
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@mipsytipsy And more generally, it's for anybody who has done anything interesting and impactful with observability tools, techniques and frameworks. We encourage participation by first time speakers and those from under-represented groups.
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Charity Majors
Charity Majors@mipsytipsy·
Boosting! This is a request for a talk from someone who's gone through the experience of bringing order to madness, specifically going from metrics/log trash to structured logs and traces. Anyone??
Michael Gat@michaelgat

@sontek @mipsytipsy @ahidalgosre @timotheo Shameless plug: If somebody is looking to do such a talk, or knows somebody who could do such a talk, I'm looking for speakers for the SCaLE Observability Track. Doesn't have to be specifically open-source related. Contact me for details: socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/call…

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sontek
sontek@sontek·
@mipsytipsy @ahidalgosre @timotheo I want a talk on how to go from unstructured shit show to beautiful structured logs. Our graylog + opensearch clusters are the largest systems we maintain (larger than the actual product) and most of the logs no one ever looks at
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@QuinnyPig @mikejulian @awscloud I had a few clients like that back in the day. There was a time when pretty much every production person in LA seemed to have done at least a brief stint in between other things at the mysterious entity always listed as "PEGI" on their resume. (Pl*yB*y Entertainment Group, Inc.)
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Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·
@mikejulian @awscloud Sure enough, they were an adult entertainment company. Fun trivia: almost all of those companies have super generic corporate names--helpful for folks who aren't keen on having a paycheck with "MASTURBATORY ENTERPRISES" as the payer account. Zero shade. I get it.
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Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·
Okay, gather round for a thread. It's been a while since this particular incident arose here at The @DuckbillGroup, and it was amusing / relatable enough that you all might enjoy it. After all, the best cautionary tales come with a good story.
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@JoeBlubaugh @QuinnyPig @awscloud Varied widely, which is why sometimes even the $100k a year people could justify a project. But they'd only be able to do that once. Ongoing "small improvements" (something Amazon rightly focuses on), are generally not cost-effective without significant scale.
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Corey Quinn
Corey Quinn@QuinnyPig·
Why scale matters: I migrated a personal workload from x86 to @awscloud Graviton last week. Assuming my time is worth $15 an hour (I am told it is not), I come out economically ahead in another 3.2 years.
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@QuinnyPig @awscloud Some of the more interesting projects were for the smaller clients. If they were able to survive it was because they understood that efficiency was not what they brought to the table and focused on other things, often interesting things. But scale pays better.
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Michael Gat
Michael Gat@michaelgat·
@QuinnyPig @awscloud I used to tell my smaller clients that at $10m a year, 10% gain may pay for the project the year you do it. At $1m spend, you may be able to justify a contractor to tweak things. At $100k spend, the savings you're likely to get from any project you can afford won't buy me lunch.
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