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i want to pull out this excellent comment to my post on hiring. first-hand stories of being hired *for* reasons of (age/exp) diversity, and of being hired/not hired based on confidence they could make him successful. 👏 charity.wtf/2019/10/18/the…
(link takes you directly to the comment, but also this:)
you do someone no favors if you hire them without a firm plan for what success looks like, a clear sense of skills needed vs learnable, and how to support them while they skill up on the difference.
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My God: you're right! But you deploy during the day, even though I happen to know you go home and sleep EVERY NIGHT. Why do you only give a shit about people's rest on weekends???
I am just so mystified by these magical systems that so many seem to run, where bugs never turn up in hours (deploy-0..36)*, but pummel the shit out of them in hours 36..60.

*nobody ever seems to object to Thursday deploys?
Look, as I've said a million times: freeze deploys on Friday all you want, if you can afford the velocity, just --

🌷DO IT BY BLOCKING MERGES.🌷

Merging a changeset and going live should feel like an atomic operation. It should be swift, automatic -- default.
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Again, making it so things never break is NOT THE GOAL.

Making it so many things can break before users are impacted is the goal. Making it so that any user impact is glaringly obvious and easy to identify and confirm and mitigate is the goal.
We have spent decades getting engineers used to developing thru the lens of their test suite.

Now we just need to expand that a smidge...and develop thru the lens of their instrumentation in production. Build for reality, not a simulacrum.
Observability-driven development, not test-driven development. Because code is just the beginning.

Reality is code plus architecture and infrastructure, time and elapsed time, dependencies, method of deployment, user activity, and any other concurrent activity.
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ignore the wonky titles; @akvanh and @alainadev are software engineers at *Honeycomb*, and if you're going to #leaddevnewyork you REALLY do not want to miss this talk.

i mean.. only if you're into first-hand testimonials on building teams that are sustainably high-performing. 😉
@akvanh @alainadev i actually livetweeted a much earlier version of this talk, seen here:

a taste of the good shit:

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