Distinguished Engineer @Google Crisis is inevitable. Panic is optional.

Austin, TX
Joined February 2009
Spec driven development the way we do it internally at Google using the plugin we use every day. Give it a try! egm.dev
AI coding speed without structured design leads to auto-scaled mistakes. Introducing the open source Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin—co-design specs & validate architecture with stateless AI reviewers. 👇 Link in first reply
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Congratulations to @betsybeyer, @niallm and the rest of the Google crew on the 2nd edition of the Google O'Reilly SRE Book! goo.gle/SREbook If you care about building reliable systems - especially in the age of AI, you need this book on your shelf. @googlesre @Google
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If all of learning is just "doing it wrong until you do it right" then whoo boy have I learned a LOT these last few months! ;-) At the urging of my colleagues I wrote some of it down. medium.com/@drensin/elephant…
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I'm claiming my AI agent "Max_ATX" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: splash-AW4L
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Google NotebookLM is absolutely insane, easily the best AI product out there, and it is free to use. The new Mindmap feature makes learning so easy. You can use it to understand your codebase. Just convert your codebase to a single file and try it out.
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Talk about "burying the lead" ... The least reported sentence from today's Willow announcement from Google: "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse..." 🤔
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I knew the cats reminded me of something...
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I miss the days when the Internet was mostly this...
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My cat has a very specific comic sensibility.. He really digs Mr. Show
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welp... after more than 2 years of dodging COVID, I finally got tagged. Worst possible time (of course). *sigh* A square on my 2022 bingo card I was hoping to miss. The worst part is all the people I have to disappoint by cancelling all the stuff I was going to do..
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"tell you what, let's meet halfway." - not always the optimal strategy :-)
Coming across the middle like Ray Lewis
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Models for Data Consistency: 1) You are eventually consistent <- strong consistency 2) Are you eventually consistent <- questionable consistency 3) Eventually consistent you are <- Yoda consistency 4) Are consistent eventually you <- Iambic consistency
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hey @glossaudio.. Is your site down? Trying to get a master done. Love your product, but server errors make me sad :-(
Dave Rensin retweeted
One of the highlights of #IRConf will be chatting w/ @drensin (SVP Eng @pendoio & ex-Google) about ⭐customer-centric⭐ incident response. The trend in tech is to over-focus on automated/monitoring systems, when the majority of SEV1s are actually triggered by customers (humans).
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Dave Rensin retweeted
We're excited to announce #IRConf 💥 A 1-day virtual conference dedicated to Incident Response 🔥📟 Keynotes: @editingemily | @drensin Sponsors: @honeycombio | @goteleport | @bridgecrewio | @rookoutlabs | @LaunchDarkly | @GremlinInc Register for free! irconf.io/
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