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Caring deeply about reliability, developer experience, and building foolproof systems, Phillip Campbell is joining us to share how Gusto runs Sidekiq at scale with 600 engineers and millions of users.
Glad to have you joining RMR, Phillip!
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Have you ever wanted to throw tens of thousands of actual browser sessions at your web application to see how it responds to load? Zach Hammer and @anderparra write about how SeatGeek built its own browser-based load testing platform. chairnerd.seatgeek.com/brows…
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I get suspicious when I hear someone identify themselves as a "leader." More often than not, they're just a manager. Calling yourself "leader" is like calling yourself "king." It's meaningless. Both are attributes, not job descriptions, and they're conferred by others.
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Unicode has a zero-valued fraction in it: ↉
it's for compatibility with… baseball!
“In the event that a pitcher is surrendered without getting a single out, the number of innings pitched shall be recorded as ↉ instead of 0.” ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8A…
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Another common question I’m answering working with scaling tech companies is…
Q. What’s the worst leadership advice you’ve heard?
A. By far the worst is “Hire great people and get out of their way”.
Let me explain… 🧵 (1/32)
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Agile:
• Work small
• Talk to each other
• Make people’s lives better
That’s it. All that other junk is a distraction.
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One more top-of-mind recommendation from our Book Review Team's classic reading list!
Remember, if your users are asleep they can't leave bad reviews!
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This is a really good point. A backlog is a conversation, and all the items in the backlog are part of that conversation. As the conversation evolves, some items are discarded and new ones appear, but the ones you remove have done their job, influencing the new direction.
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Can I talk to the person on the @awscloud Compute Optimizer team who priced the billing dimension to ten decimal places of precision?
I’m not mad or anything, I just think you could really use someone to talk to.
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Sometimes an engineer will get their company to open source a project. Then there will be a couple of commits and it's never touched again.
That engineer just passed their work to themselves so they could use it in their new job.
This is called "pulling a Netflix."
