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remember this bit? wherein we wrote an ebook on observability to show how an obscure technical term from control theory became the buzzword du jour, by identifying the gap between mature tooling solutions and the distributed systems problems we face? honeycomb.io/resources/guid…
WELL SHIT, we made part 2. honeycomb.io/resources/guid…

this guide is for developers in production. skills like debugging in prod, understanding the impact of your code, breaking things on purpose are no longer negotiable -- these are table stakes. and they require observability.
if you are even considering edgy things like "testing in prod" or "chaos engineering" ... do not pass go, you must be this tall to ride this ride ... and "this tall" means you must be able to slice and dice and inspect raw events and their aggregates in real time. observability.
the flood of vendors making claims about "total observability" and "infinite cardinality" and other lipsticks on pigs is starting to gross me out

one of these days i'll subscribe to a bunch of industry accounts and refute every criminal misuse of terminology. 🤔 for a week
... but right now i'm off to get pretty for our company holiday party. @cyen you too. get off the computer. 🌲🤶🎁🎊🦸‍♀️💃💅👯‍♀️
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btw ... going from line manager (managing engineers) to director (managing managers) is almost as much of a career change as going from engineer to manager.

you will suck at your job again, and you will have to rewire your brain's reward mechanisms again.
the metaphor i use is, as an engineer you get to use your hands to build a ship. as manager, you walk along the pier coaching and lending a hand.

as a director, you get a mission ("build 2x larger ships!") and a rusty fishing rod to wave at the managers to convey what you want.
almost all line managers rely on their personal charisma or subject authority to get their team to do things in some unique and unreplicable way.

once you become a director, you can't lean on instinct. what worked for you will not work for the managers who report to you.
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this is uncanny since i was JUST WRITING a tweet on questions you should ask when interviewing:

- is there a career ladder? comp bands?
- do managers and engineers get compensated equally by level?
- do you encourage people to move back and forth between IC/mgmt?
the rest of @JeremyMcGee's list:
- is management seen as a promotion?
- how long does it take someone to reach senior engineer out of school?
- is there a terminal level for engineers?
- what is the distribution of engineers over levels? how many principals?
- what are the technical expectations for managers?
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an interesting and subtle point. The team you recruit, hire and retain with a 6 month time horizon is very different than the one you hire with a 2y or 5y horizon.

People *tend* not to think on a long enough time scale. But sometimes too long!
I used to think "not a good fit" was always a bullshit term. After 3 years of running a company, and parting ways with ever so many brilliant, wonderful people for the right reasons which also had absolutely no reflection on their worth -- it's not (always) bullshit. At all.
Sometimes a question of limited resources and changing strategy, interpersonal dynamics and shifting needs, crazy gambles that don't pan out, needs not fully understood, technical affinities and joys and stages of life and personal balance.
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"Yo, your shit's broken" has ALWAYS been BAD monitoring.
At times, it may be the only monitoring we have, but it's not the end goal.
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