Pierre Vincent

Not so long ago (okay, 23 years ago… 👴🏻), my dear friend @PierreVincent and I would build websites entirely offline, transfer the files to floppy disks (several of them, for redundancy), and… ride our bloody bikes 🚴🏻‍♂️ to the library to upload updates to free FTP servers!

Back in the day, the biggest bottleneck of the deployment pipeline was the library opening hours.

@meekrosoft And now today I'm the SRE on the Pagerduty rota. One would think my father should have warned me about this 😂

@meekrosoft This is throwing me back 30+ years, when my father used to bring his Minitel home some week-ends, while being the on-call system admin! As kids, we used to use it offline to draw line by line just using white squares and spaces 😅

Tools so fast and easy to use that they unleash creativity and collaboration in ways that weren't possible before. My take: relentlessly invest in speeding up your design & front-end development processes, and you'll take your products to whole new level.

For the last attempt, the traffic team at slack went back to strengthen run books (especially for very risky rollbacks), increasing observability on DNS (route53 logs for full visibility of dns requests, breakdown by resolvers). @rdelvira #QConLondon

You know you're in a really bad spot when you need to ask all DNS resolvers operator to clear their cache for your main domain 😱. "This was a very big spreadsheet..." @rdelvira #QConLondon

Here we go, last talk of the day on the production track at #QConLondon, with @rdelvira and "an entertaining outage story" (his own words) when slack rolled out DNSSEC

"If we have proper visualisation and better metaphors, we set much better conditions for our operators to be comfortable in understanding and responding to variations in our systems." @yurynino #QConLondon

Visual metaphors as alternative solutions to hard to read bar charts. For traffic, using nodes and edges of variable size - and for latency using color coded gauges. @yurynino #QConLondon

Continuing the #QConLondon production track with @yurynino, and using visual metaphors to understand our production data in a different way.