Rex Morgan

Kubernetes migration almost killed our startup. Where we were: - 8 EC2 instances - Ansible for deploys - Boring but working - $1200/month AWS bill Why we migrated: - New investor wanted 'cloud-native' - Engineers wanted K8s experience - Competitors were using it - Seemed like the future 6 months later: - 3 engineers spending full-time on K8s - AWS bill at $4500/month - Deploys took longer than before - More outages, not fewer - Product development stalled We rolled back: - Moved to ECS Fargate - 2 week migration - Back to $1800/month - Engineers back on features K8s is amazing for scale. We weren't at scale. Technology should solve problems you actually have.

i’d argue you’re too easily moved by the choice words. “privilege” and “equality” are selected because they confuse the notion of fairness. another way to frame his statement “if you’re accustomed to succeeding due to hard work, ingenuity, risk/sacrifice, and, sure, some amount of luck, having the outcomes reset so that everyone is rewarded more equally feels unfair.” is succeeding after making good choices, sacrificing personally, and working hard really “privilege”? is it oppressive that everyone doesn’t get to the same place? perhaps the real oppression is the loss of individual liberties when naively egalitarian philosophies mutate into marxism, denying opportunities for individual sacrifice, effort, and achievement to be rewarded. framed as privilege v equality misses the mark.. equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are v different things. silicon valley’s most successful are the immigrants who found america as one of the only places on earth where an individual with zero baseline privilege can struggle and sacrifice and effortfully succeed. calling them privileged after the fact seems hardly the point. but an easy one to make.

BREAKING: The day after Mahmoud Khalil was released from an ICE detention facility, he is back to protesting outside of Columbia University. What value does Mahmoud provide to America other than causing chaos?

Outside of Google is there any large company NOT using Sonnet as their primary model for coding? Heard even Meta switched internally to it from Llama Anthropic pulled off something pretty incredible by becoming the de facto coding model choice for most tech companies…

The people who have accused everyone else of being the problem, are suddenly discovering that everyone else thinks THEY are the problem.

Yep. A sprint is an arbitrary time box. Sprints are like training wheels. Use if necessary at first, then try to quickly outgrow them.

I can't think of a metric more worthless than "velocity." The typical definition (points/Sprint) is meaningless, given that nobody knows what a "point" is. If a point is a degree of difficulty/complexity, well, you don't know how difficult it really is until you build it. I've never heard of anybody assigning a point value after the code was written, but what exactly would be the point of that (so to speak 😄)? Any definition that just translates to output volume (e.g. LOC) is worthless because that doesn't consider the value of the work (to the business or the customer). If points are an indicator of time, then, given that you have the same amount of time in every Sprint, velocity will never vary. Add to all this that the system is easy to game ("Double my velocity? Sure! One point stories are now two points!") I'd just dump the whole concept.