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Charity Majors
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as usual, liz's recap is a clear and crispy version of my talk, and you should read it if you're intrigued by the idea of testing in production.

(but I've still got the edge on rainbows muahaha 🌈🌷💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🌸🌟🌈)
favorite moment of this afternoon was afterwards, when a few -- multiple! -- people with formal security and QA backgrounds came up and told me even MORE reasons to urge testing in prod. 🤗🥰
second favorite moment has to be at the end when I was marveling over my own moderation and self-restraint, and @lizthegrey piped up "I'm a good influence!" sotto voce, front and center. 🤣🥳
also I finally got to meet @dbsmasher, finally putting to rest long speculation that we are a single person. and holy shitballs did you see how our booth was packed five deep all week?!? damn we have come a *ways* this year.

happy #velocityconf everybody, see you next year ☺️
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Charity Majors
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in honor of @SlackHQ ipo filing, I have a story.

once upon a time, I started a company with some friends. we called it bloodhound.sh. we envisioned a little pup with a magnifying glass sifting thru machine data for actionable insights.
within weeks we shortened it to hound.sh, which stuck until we got a cease-and-desist from hound-ci. 😢 desperate, the four of us (me/@cyen/@toshok/@maplebed) provisioned drinks and brainstormed names for hours: trufflepig.io, datafairy and so on.
one of the concepts we loved the most had to do with bees: structured data, cooperation, diligence, sweetness. naturally all the normal terms and suffixes were in active use.

but then we noticed honeycomb.io was registered to slack, and didn't seem active. 🤔
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Apparently the last time I was on Twitter my thumb slipped and I got distracted? 🤷‍♀️

I think the point I was going to make was that case studies are exercises in hindsight bias, and (for the $bigcos) recruiting and dick swinging over scale. They're just peacocking.
it's not IMPOSSIBLE to give a useful case study. I suggest:

* spend a third of your time on constraints
* ...incl human
* don't skim past opportunity costs
* or handwave migrations
* describe the characteristics of your use case that *specifically* make $tech work for you
Any real talk case study is going to involve a lot of sadness and failure. TLDR I guess trust a case study inversely proportional to how chipper and confident it sounds? 🤔. Yeah, I'll buy that
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from now on june 19th will be a company holiday for us. (kicking myself for making only mental notes the past two years.. that is not a durable write medium.) h/t @marcprecipice for the link.

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If there's one thing having a company has taught me, it's how easy change can be.

(And I don't mean just easy for people who own companies, although yes.. that too! It's a good reason to start a company!)
Most things are the way they are because of habit or stasis, not conviction. Which means lots of things are actually very easy to change.
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