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“People with targets […] will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.” – Deming
As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.
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At the Sydney launch event for @TeremTech’s State of APIs ANZ report with @tiamsorensen. We were very keen at @CipherStash to contribute to this inaugural report.
Dropped @Movember’s production database during peak donation period in Nov 2011.
Ran automation for setting up a new follower db against the leader db, taking the entire cluster offline.
Prod down for ~5 mins as we restored. Probably lost several tens of k’s of donation $s.
A good friend of mine had a person on their team drop the production database this week. They are back up, but it was a scary 24 hours for them.
Please quote tweet or reply to this thread with YOUR tales of #DroppingProduction so they know they aren't alone!
Adding +15 headcount means you’re a Director (or well on your way!), which improves your compensation, your future job opportunities, etc.
Adding +400k/yr in SaaS spend means you’re meeting with Finance every month to review infrastructure costs and bring them under control.
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“The report's author believes it may be unethical to continue to send women to the stations if the behaviour can't be stamped out”
Here’s a free idea that doesn’t punish the victims: ban all men from the stations
abc.net.au/news/2022-09-29/r…
Halvard @halvards treating us to a live demo of remote debugging of Go apps with skaffold at @syddevops
And now @pi3ch is showing us how easy it is to break out of containers
Spent the day sick on the couch finishing reviews of @SREcon APAC talks, and every time I said “SRE”, iOS dictation wrote it as “sorry”, and I think that says a lot
This nails something I had amorphously felt but never articulated in my head (attributed to @monicabyrne13).
This is unbelievably fucked. abc.net.au/news/2022-09-14/z…
And yet NT Police say his comments “do not represent the values of the Northern Territory Police Force or of most members of that force”


















