Software developer and traveller
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined December 2011
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Sam Roberton retweeted
Terrible idea.
No gatekeepers. Gatekeepers bad.
No un-automated gates between merging your code and it going live.
@mipsytipsy what's your opinion on having QA people as gatekeepers for production releases?
Sam Roberton retweeted
5) breaking up the software lifecycle into roles like dev, test, and ops inevitably produces such low quality software that devs refuse to be on call for it, so you have to hire armies of ops people as cannon fodder.
these teams, and there are many, need the devops gospel badly.
Sam Roberton retweeted
Since this false assumption is still distressingly common: In software delivery, there is no speed vs stability trade-off
We now have 7yrs of data from tens of thousands of responses globally. Attached graph from cloud.google.com/devops/stat…, previous years at devops-research.com/research…
Sam Roberton retweeted
If I'm remembered only by my practice of giving managers multiple copies of Mythical Man-Month so they could read it faster, that's enough.
Sam Roberton retweeted
i guess in my book it counts as bullshit if you say something literally nobody would ever disagree with.
"so ... we should build empathy, break down silos and and collaborate cross-functionally?? brave stance, bro" 👍
Sam Roberton retweeted
When the #quarantine is over, I want to buy this man dinner. Who is he? This might be the best thing I've seen in weeks.
Sam Roberton retweeted
I wish there were a lot more cultural value placed on staying as small and nimble as you can, for as long as you can. Instead of humblebragging about how big your company has gotten, I wish we had the words to brag about
✨how much we have achieved✨
✨with so few✨
Sam Roberton retweeted
I am convinced there are many, many (most?) software companies out there with 2x, 3x, 4x+ the headcount they really need to build and support their core product.
But they never understood their breaky, flaky systems, so they had to plaster over the problems with people.
Total time hunting down, fixing and deploying those fixes was <15 minutes. It probably took me more time to write up this Twitter thread :)
I am certain it would be impossible to run @linc_bot with such a small team without @honeycombio.
Sam Roberton retweeted
The public messaging around coronavirus is "your behavior today determines the news two weeks from now." Notice how psychologically hard it is to link cause and effect with just that two week delay. Climate change poses a similar political problem, but the delay is decades long
Sam Roberton retweeted
“In these tough times it’s comforting to know that Australia has the world’s 68th fastest internet" theshovel.com.au/2020/03/18/…
Sam Roberton retweeted
We are about to see how costly the government's decision to scrimp on the NBN could be, as business relies on staff being able to work from home. It could get ugly. afr.com/technology/business-…
Sam Roberton retweeted
The arguments in defense of JWT are the same as PGP:
‣ it supports good crypto, too;
‣ it just needs an opinionated library;
‣ you can use only the good parts;
‣ it's battle tested;
‣ it's flexible;
‣ everything can be misused…
You can imagine how I feel about them.
Sam Roberton retweeted
It feels like we've regressed a lot when it comes to basic scaling and architecture for the web. Basecamp launched in 2004 on a SHARED server (👋 Tilted). We ran with a single box until we had thousands of paying users. One majestic monolith. alexpareto.com/scalability/s…
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We examine how News Corp’s loudest voices denied or downplayed the role of climate change. #MediaWatch
Watch the full report on our website:
ab.co/2Ot4Jui