DevOpsing at @SalesforceEng

Atlanta, GA
Joined April 2008
Finally got my old school alarm system talking to HomeKit with a pile of go code that reads from a serial port.
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Can't find a single article explaining when I should use Mongo versus Kubernetes
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OH: What if everything is a tarball?
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If you've ever written more than a few lines of bash and haven't heard of bats you should check it out and start testing your crazy bash scripts. github.com/sstephenson/bats Adding in this mocking lib also makes it easier to use: github.com/jasonkarns/bats-m…
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Patrick retweeted
Yo San Francisco friends! I’m going to be out your way this week with @TheEmpathyLab and want to chat with you about building communities and strengthening our empathy muscle. Help me meet some compassionate people and companies. #buildempathy – at Avondale Estates, GA
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That feeling when you set arbitrary goals and miss them by 9 seconds.
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In some ways, to do well, high-level individual contributors need better people skills than managers. We don’t have access to all the carrots (or sticks) that they do.
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Earlier in my career, I thought it was the managers who needed people skills, but as a high-level individual contributor, you are expected to lead projects that cross the org chart...while having no official authority over anyone.
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Stop calling it an "Internal Tools" team. What every company really needs is an "Internal Products" team.
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Every few weeks I get an email asking about old @asm projects I worked on. We did a lot of things wrong, but I still haven't found another community like the one we had -- a group of talented, kind people with totally different backgrounds building products together. Miss it.
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Helped build a thing
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Atlanta giving me hope.
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Pretty sure @_tholmes @ctholbr and I could start a moving company.
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🎉Had a great first day at @SalesforceEng today 🎉
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