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Explaininator. Black Lives Matter. Bright-colored hair. Not straight. She/her. Author: https://t.co/wHuUGSfuTP
Jun 7, 2022 287 tweets >60 min read
#LeadDevLondon HEYYYYY, I’m in London, at The Lead Dev, one of the best conferences you’ll ever get a chance to attend, and I actually get to tweet it. So if you are not here for that, mute the hashtag and carry on happily. #LeadDevLondon @vitorreisdev Navigating the Chaos of Scaling
Jun 6, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Tube strike?! How lucky can I get? Very authentic. Tube strike AND voting about Boris Johnson?

Stop! This is too much fun.

I am unprepared for this level of occurrence. I didn't bring a hat or anything.
Apr 6, 2022 158 tweets 55 min read
Hey, friends! I’m at #LeadDevNewYork. I’m going to be trying to get my livetweeting mojo back, so I encourage you to mute the tag if you don’t want a firehose of conference content. First up, @nerdneha! Building Culture Through Communication.
Oct 4, 2021 38 tweets 19 min read
#DevOpsLoop @editingemily: Rethinking the SDLC #DevOpsLoop @editingemily: DevOps built on the foundation of agile to become a default, a standard that we reach for to understand what we're doing and what we should be doing.
Oct 2, 2021 33 tweets 17 min read
#strangeloop @frankc: How Tracing Uncovers Half-Truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure #strangeloop @frankc: Heirarchy of needs: bottom — observability, middle — resilience, top — [too slow]
Oct 1, 2021 27 tweets 14 min read
#strangeloop @cristalopes: The Future of Conferences — Crista Lopes #strangeloop @cristalopes: Modern conferences probably started in the renaissance, as a way for (rich, leisured) men to exchange knowledge, especially before fast and free printing.
Jul 1, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
A modest proposal:
No one designing an app interface can view it on anything newer than an iPhone 6.

People designing web applications and sites get a 17-inch monitor at least 5 years old. The rest of my platform:
All performance testing to be conducted on internet found in rural America.

Every 2 weeks, your mouse and touchpad vanish for a day.

Any strings not prepared for localization to be rendered in Wingdings.
Apr 9, 2019 41 tweets 21 min read
#TrajectoryCon @adrianco: Measuring Your Trajectory #TrajectoryCon @adrianco: In order to understand our trajetory, we need to understand where we are starting from and where we are going to.
Mar 27, 2019 28 tweets 14 min read
#srecon @randyshoup: Learning from Learnings: Anatomy of Three Incidents #srecon @randyshoup: Outage 1: Google App Engine Outage. App Engine was down globally for 8 hours. The playbook failed and triggered a cascading failure.
Feb 16, 2019 20 tweets 6 min read
#pycaribbean Jessie Hedges: Mental Health in Tech Shops #pycaribbean Jessie Hedges: Tech has a problem — we are working hard even when we’re not working.
Mar 20, 2018 32 tweets 16 min read
#devopsmsp @Mattstratton: Matt’s speaking at the DevOps Minnepolis meetup about incident response, etc. #devopsmsp @Mattstratton: ”There’s a lot of paramilitary language in IT, but tech people would shit their Dockers if they were ever in combat.”
Feb 27, 2018 21 tweets 11 min read
#OReillySACon @jkodumal: The problem with “feature flags” is that we associate “features” with something users see, but lots of ways to reduce risk aren’t visible to end users. Feature flagging can fit into devops neatly. #OReillySACon @jkodumal: How does feature management fit into the devops puzzle? First, let’s talk about devops.