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Since Elon Musk asked Twitter employees to be "extremely hardcore" or leave, a lot of people have asked me what it really means to be hardcore. I've spent more than a decade in the hardcore scene surrounded by engineers, so here's a brief explainer.

Shout out to all the workers at Twitter. You all built a vital place for connection and deserved so much better. Millions of people appreciate the space you built and the hard work that went into it. Thank you 💙

I'm mastodon.xyz/@jonah just in case you need to find me. I'll be here as long as it exists too.

This thread, wow. 🫡💙

(We’re also straight up hiring EMs, so if that’s what you’re already doing but you also want to help build an entire new public cloud at an engineering-led company, hit us up. fly.io/jobs/engineeri… )

Don't miss the first USENIX Association event in Australia! I'm giving the opening keynote on computer performance

The SRE Book did a lot of things. Were enough of them good? @lauralifts has takes! stanza.systems/post/should-we…

My favorite part of being an SRE at Stripe. 6+ nines was just everyday business.

.Learning from Incidents in Software conference proposals are due tonight at midnight! You still have time ⏰

This is the 3rd United Airlines CRJ of my trip and also, the 3rd plane to have a delayed departure due to a maintenance issue.

Despite roadway chaos, Muni is fully operational and free tonight. Both BART (bart.gov/news/articles/…) and Muni have extra service. Don't drive. Walk, take transit, and stay safe sfmta.com/blog/free-muni…

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Do I know anyone with an invite to the new blûe thing?

This is weird to say out loud, but I actually am kinda an expert in rate limiting, so I'm gonna explain some stuff. About half of incidents in large-scale production systems involve having more requests than you can serve. There are two categories of this kind of incident:

I'm trying out that new facebook app. I'm jonahhorowitz over there too.

Good bot (messaging United Airlines actually usually works really well)

quite the thing