Hi Taylor Swift, I appreciate your commitment to Chaos Engineering; specifically, the Spotify outage Oct 21, and the more recent Ticketmaster outage earlier this week. Re: "It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me." Please know it's not you, but confluence of systemic sociotechni-

Eb anyway, tech debt is a sacrifice decision: you are sacrificing a lower priority or value goal to achieve a higher priority or value goal. sacrifice decisions are ubiquitous in business.

if you have a twitter crush on someone you legally have to tell them tonight

I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. In a few hours, I had a call. Elon asked me to come back to the office and fix the SLOs to always display "100%".

it's not even going to get to go solid, it's going straight to hell

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as I heard it this was pretty much how Jack worked

It's time for a thread on why Twitter hasn't gone down yet 🧵

To recap: the fact that Twitter continues to work is a testament to the 1000s of engineer years spelt building that reliability. But as engineers, we know that failure is coming without continued investment to protect against the next thing.

The one remaining twitter engineer holding the fort x.com/ThatEricAlper/…

standing tall against the raging storm, sails tattered and hull shattered, the waters dark surface swallows more with every passing second. but the captain is not afraid, raising his voice against the wind he cries out as the icy water reaches his mouth 'LOVE IS REAL'

the answer to both “well then why is Twitter still up” and “why are you convinced Twitter is going to get worse” is read this paper how.complexsystems.fail

In these tiring times, have a wip #kissitgoodbyecomic

new dname: @[email protected], gonna do professional and most stuff I did here, there now