Vernal Equinox by Jon Hassell open.spotify.com/album/5aZQzSX2… #NowPlaying

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This is quite cool - need to help your company collaborate on data? Here you go! We're so proud to be able to do this and give everyone the power to be agile and data driven in their organization at data.world. An agile world needs new and different tools!

Wow, that’s a bold change.

Our newest book #SREBook - Building Secure and Reliable Systems - is now available! It's free in digital formats, or you can purchase a physical copy. landing.google.com/sre/books/ I'm one of many Googlers who helped write, edit, or contribute. Check it out!

one of the things I worked on last year was an investigation of SRE and SLO practices with the dope folx at Google Site Reliability Engineering -- and it's out today! many thanks to the lovely and smart people who helped with the report and those who participated. check it out! landing.google.com/sre/resources/…

An Experiment with Corporate RFCs medium.com/@tristanls/an-…

Our first Summit is just 20 minutes away, still plenty of time to register and attend.

Is there a software suite that primarily focuses on organizational cadence? Keeping track of every repeating cycle in the org. (Daily standups, weekly 1:1s, monthly q&a's, yearly training). Basically, a lens focused on cyclic processes. I assume calendars are current tool.

I truly believe Greg Abbott saw the CPAC poll, didn’t like where he ranked and decided to lift the mask mandate + remove the remaining COVID safety restrictions to galvanize Trump’s base to increase re-election odds and/or 2024 hopes. What a total lack of empathy or morality.

God Bless the Child by Sonny Rollins open.spotify.com/track/7DUGRxCf… #NowPlaying iximusic Now you have me hearing NIN everywhere :-)

Love to decommission old infra. Delete the stacks, monitors. Purge from git and scrub documentation.

X : How long does it take to move to cloud? Me : Depends upon context i.e. the state of your business, what business you are in, the size and the zeal of the execs. It took Netflix 7 years to go data centre zero, Capital One took about 8 years ... 7-8 is a reasonable benchmark.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An architectural diagram is worth ten meetings.

It’s 2021 and even my junk mail is throwing exceptions!

All my favorite KUTX 98.9 content (news, Sunday Morning Jazz, MyKUTX) seems to be offline today. I hope somebody is working on the streams!

Here's a memo to everyone talking, writing or interviewing me or anyone else about "multi cloud strategy": it is NOT the way to fix your reliability problems. People talk like there's some magical pixie dust: sprinkle on clouds, get ✨resilience✨!

Ever wanted to be an archeologist? You are one as a software engineer.